Scientific Correction Has Failed

How Covid-19 has exposed the cracks in the system

Pictured: Science, probably. Given that I dropped physics in my final year of school and haven’t been in an actual laboratory for a decade, I could be wrong. Source: Pexels

This piece covers a new paper by myself and some fantastic colleagues recently published in PLOS Biology. It’s open-access (anyone can read it) and you can find it here.

Before the pandemic, there were well-known issues in science. Peer-review, seen as the stronghold against low-quality research, is…