Decentralization for Scientific Data

Megan Klimen, a founding officer of the Filecoin Foundation, addresses the critical issue of the replication crisis in scientific research. With a background in biology and experience in managing large data sets, Klimen explains how traditional scientific methods and incentive structures are failing, highlighting alarming statistics, such as a 2016 report showing 70 percent of researchers struggled to reproduce another scientist's experiments, and a 2023 report revealing 28 percent of biomedical papers were either fabricated or plagiarized.