Science is working exactly the way it has always worked.
Most papers have always been flawed, wrong, or not reproducible. There has always been pressure to publish--going back even to Newton's battles with Hooke over gravity, or Darwin's rush to publish On the Origin of Species before Wallace.
What has changed are the cultural expectations. Culturally, we've become spoiled by physics. We're used to the precision, speed, and accuracy of physics and engineering. Moore's law, the iPhone, incredible bridges, the 787 and 380 airplanes--they all just work, safely and reliably.
Note that the reproduction problems are most prevalent in chemistry, biology, medicine, etc. These are areas of science that are far more complex, and about which we know far less, than physics. It will take a long time, and a lot of failed research, to even start to approach that level of knowledge. Given the complexity, it might be impossible.
Most papers have always been flawed, wrong, or not reproducible. There has always been pressure to publish--going back even to Newton's battles with Hooke over gravity, or Darwin's rush to publish On the Origin of Species before Wallace.
What has changed are the cultural expectations. Culturally, we've become spoiled by physics. We're used to the precision, speed, and accuracy of physics and engineering. Moore's law, the iPhone, incredible bridges, the 787 and 380 airplanes--they all just work, safely and reliably.
Note that the reproduction problems are most prevalent in chemistry, biology, medicine, etc. These are areas of science that are far more complex, and about which we know far less, than physics. It will take a long time, and a lot of failed research, to even start to approach that level of knowledge. Given the complexity, it might be impossible.