If only we could prevent the news from making discoveries public before they&#x27;ve had a chance to be verified. Even if the news media publishes a retraction, it usually happens long after the initial results are already spread and reinforced as common knowledge.<p>I&#x27;m only just an armchair opinion but I get the impression that a some people are gaming the system for profit rather at the expense of intellectual honesty. The prospect of the field of science incentivizing &#x27;junk science&#x27; is really unsettling.