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Re:If you think psychological science is bad, imagine how ba... by spullara on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @02:39PM (#27531935)
Dedicated folks that just try and reproduce important papers would be amazing and valuable. Only time I have seen it happen at scale was during the Cold Fusion days.
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Re:If you think psychological science is bad, imagine how ba... by throwawayboise on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @02:43PM (#27531979)
That's because if cold fusion had been proven to work, there were fortunes to be made.

Most science has very little market value.

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