Are we finally getting serious about fixing science?

Biomedical research has faced criticism for being unreliable, but today’s report from the Academy of Medical Sciences might change all that Some time in 1999, as a 22 year-old fresh into an Australian PhD programme, I had my first academic paper rejected. “The results are only moderately interesting”, chided an anonymous reviewer. “The methods are solid but the findings are not very important”, said another. “We can only publish the most novel studies”,