Princeton Professor Estimates 80% of Scientific Literature Is Fundamentally Wrong

A Princeton professor estimates that up to 80% of scientific literature may be fundamentally wrong, driven by overproduction and publishing incentives, and sees this as a major opportunity for AI for Science tools to accelerate scientific self-correction.

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