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Re:What happens when you try to publish a failure to replica... by meowface on Wednesday June 29, 2016 @01:42AM (#11999727)
Sure, but a pretty high percentage of the US believes anthropogenic climate change is not real. They think it's either a misinterpretation, or an explicit hoax. Most of the Republican party denies climate change, or at least denies that human activity is playing a significant role in it.

We can't have reasonable debates on cost-effectiveness when so many people deny the fact that there is even a problem at all.

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Re:What happens when you try to publish a failure to replica... by the_watcher on Wednesday June 29, 2016 @01:55PM (#12003324)
This is orthogonal to my point, which is that these incentives are present in all branches of science, and are likely impacting what is published similarly.
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