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Re:A new replication crisis: Research that is less likely to... by katzgrau on Saturday May 22, 2021 @08:26AM (#27245849)
Distracting from the main point, "let's just try something and hope nothing bad happens" (trial and error) is precisely the reason civilization made it this far :)
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Re:A new replication crisis: Research that is less likely to... by simonh on Saturday May 22, 2021 @11:45AM (#27247593)
And in fact evolution. The thing to remember is, in many cases where something bad did happen the evidence got buried or eaten.
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