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Re:1 in 4 Statisticians Say They Were Asked to Commit Scient... by afarrell on Friday November 02, 2018 @06:47PM (#18367349)
Was it an option to present the paper as normal, but then have a sudden surprise twist at the end which left the audience both surprised and feeling the pathos of imagining how they would feel about discovering the last 18 months of their research was invalid?

Or am I mistaken in reading "present" as "stand up in front of a crowd of people"?

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Re:1 in 4 Statisticians Say They Were Asked to Commit Scient... by naasking on Saturday November 03, 2018 @12:41AM (#18368737)
Just thought the same. There was a way to "follow orders" and satisfy your principles in a way that serves science. And if anything happened to him after that, it would be clear that it was a political firing.
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