Pro tip for mediocre researchers: If you write your article really carelessly, it will be very hard for anyone to reproduce your results to the point where they can identify the substantive problems. A clear write-up (with working code & data) of a bad study is a rookie mistake.
You say "rookie" but experienced researchers do this just as much (if not more?) in my experience of reproducing modeling work. It is (or at least was) adaptive. More here: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cogsys.2013.05.001 …