A research thread argues most papers are wrong and should not be read literally
RexDouglass · x · 2026-07-29
- The author argues that any conversation about accuracy or peer review has to start from a harsh baseline: in many fields, most published work may be wrong.
- From that premise, they conclude that researchers often do not literally expect their work to be taken as definitive truth; a lot of scholarship is better understood as exploratory rather than exact.
- The follow-up implication is that criticism of research quality should account for this non-literal norm instead of assuming every paper is making a strict factual claim.
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