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Re:Paying Professors: Inside Google’s Academic Influence Cam... by gnicholas on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @06:25PM (#14748613)
No, I was responding to a comment that made a comparison between Google and government. I'm not saying the government never cares about the outcome of research, just that some (much? most?) of their funding goes to answering research questions where the government is agnostic.
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Re:Paying Professors: Inside Google’s Academic Influence Cam... by caseysoftware on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @08:45PM (#14749295)
The government is made up of people who are fundamentally no better or worse than anyone else.

Instead of accepting that anyone is an angel or devil, we should approach all results with a critical eye and push for reproducibility.

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