Yes and no.  What I envision is a more collaborative process where the faulty data (and your calibration concerns) could be available for scrutiny <i>before</i> your work was officially finished.<p>I feel like if we did it right, it would be possible to define &quot;units of scientific work&quot; to be something other than &quot;finished publications.&quot;  An incentive structure designed to maximize the new units would place more value on verification, collaboration, and negative results.