In the couple years I spent doing biology research, about 8 years ago, I was skeptical of most research from China because it already had a reputation already of being untrustworthy. But why stop at China?<p>I spent a good part of a year trying and failing to replicate an English study, and looking around for materials referenced in another study that simply don't exist, finally being told by the principal on that study that they mischaracterized the materials in the paper. Sometimes when you get the results you are hoping for, you publish, and you don't care if they were wrong, right?<p>Perhaps it would be better if scientists generally took a more skeptical view of others' publications and tried to replicate them in house. At conferences, instead of asking, "Where do we go from here", with the first study, ask, "What do I need to do to replicate this?"