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[–]noice 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Of course. But the proxy for high quality and high impact research has become the number of citations, which itself becomes a heavily gamed metric divorced from the thing that it's supposed to quantify.

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It's a process whereby the state of the research can be confirmed. When there are problems with the initial research, it's challenged by other scientists, and in most cases a correction is published where necessary. There is no alternative approach that would have scientists respond to the research. A video that provides no reliable evidence certainly doesn't help.