While this seems to give the impression that science is not functioning, I don't see this as the case. I will give an example from my field. Before Covid struck, I was at a conference in Japan. There was a talk about an interesting superconductor. Someone repeated some of the earlier measurements and determined that they were misinterpreted--that the measurement technique led to heating the material and thus the misi…
Agreed (10 days late, but still.)
These kinds of issues are issues with how human societies function. Scientific methods can't eliminate that, but they can help manage it. In fact that's largely the point.