Great article, and so true unfortunately. It's a bit of a catch-22 however, since requiring more sole-author papers leads to more stealing of ideas, but increased recognition on papers is part of the scientific inflation problem.

It's an unfortunate fact that there is no investment in re-checking scientific papers. I think part of the solution would involve be an international committee whose sole function is to check scientific publications for accuracy and reproducibility. Additionally, people should be more concerned about the impact factor associated with a scientist and their published articles, rather than the volume of work produced.

Sometimes however, I feel a different approach to the same problem deserves a separate publication. In my experience, I've often needed to read many different views of the same problem in scientific publications in order to be inspired with a solution to my own experimental issues.

This was a good read and I hope the scientific community moves towards solving these issues very soon.