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Re:Google told its scientists to ‘strike a positive tone’ in... by mhh__ on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @08:23AM (#25517354)
It seems to be an unfortunate reality of doing research for anything other than the sake of research.

My physics teacher worked for some kind of government air pollution modelling group in the past, and effectively said that they would often be told "Here's the result, find us data to make it work".

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Re:Google told its scientists to ‘strike a positive tone’ in... by ClumsyPilot on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @08:35AM (#25517471)
It seems like corruption that does billions in damages and costs lives
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Re:Google told its scientists to ‘strike a positive tone’ in... by ksec on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @10:41AM (#25518694)
"The basic rule of Government, never set up an inquiry or research unless you know in advance what its findings will be,"

- Sir Humphrey

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