Timeline for Will a paper be retracted if a flaw in released software code invalidates its central idea?
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| Feb 4, 2020 at 8:01 | answer | added | user295106 | timeline score: -1 | |
| Aug 10, 2019 at 10:18 | vote | accept | Tejas Shetty | ||
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| Aug 9, 2019 at 16:05 | comment | added | llama | @Mast not necessarily. I've had quantum mechanics simulations with a missing term before, and depending on where you've made the mistake between the algebra and the code, that can be very hard to find while not having an obviously wrong output. Sure you should double/triple check every step and get someone else to do the same, which should catch it, but sometimes this kind of thing will slip through. | |
| Aug 9, 2019 at 12:52 | comment | added | Mast | @JBentley Only a Sith deals in absolutes. But there's bugs, and there's crippling bugs invalidating the central idea of the paper. You'd need quite a bug for that or very crappy software. | |
| Aug 9, 2019 at 11:24 | comment | added | JBentley | @mast How many pieces of software do you know that you can say are 100% bug free? | |
| Aug 9, 2019 at 8:58 | comment | added | Mast | Shouldn't you be validating the result to make sure both the logic and program are sound before publishing? | |
| Aug 9, 2019 at 6:13 | comment | added | vsz | What is someone builds a machine assuming your findings were correct, and it malfunctions and kills a lot of people because it turns out it was incorrect? | |
| Aug 8, 2019 at 4:16 | comment | added | Tejas Shetty | All the answers, comments are so deep and insightful I am having a really hard time deciding which one answer to accept. | |
| Aug 7, 2019 at 19:55 | comment | added | Ray | If the paper is wrong, learning that you need to retract it is the positive gain. | |
| Aug 7, 2019 at 19:22 | comment | added | Michael Kay | Positive gain? Sure, you will go to heaven instead of hell. Seriously, behaving ethically is always a positive gain. | |
| Aug 7, 2019 at 17:16 | comment | added | soegaard | FWIW there has been a movement in Computer Science towards releasing source code, so results can be reproduced. See artifact-eval.org/motivation.html | |
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| Aug 7, 2019 at 15:15 | answer | added | nabla | timeline score: 9 | |
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| Aug 7, 2019 at 7:28 | answer | added | einpoklum | timeline score: 12 | |
| Aug 7, 2019 at 7:16 | history | edited | einpoklum | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 6, 2019 at 21:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackAcademia/status/1158845336456224768 | ||
| Aug 6, 2019 at 16:50 | answer | added | Dan Romik | timeline score: 35 | |
| Aug 6, 2019 at 15:12 | answer | added | J Fabian Meier | timeline score: 13 | |
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| Aug 6, 2019 at 14:40 | history | asked | Tejas Shetty | CC BY-SA 4.0 |