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Re:Time to assume that health research is fraudulent until p... by btilly on Monday July 19, 2021 @04:59PM (#27887187)
https://www.sciencealert.com/non-replicable-studies-make-the... may interest you. Papers that can't replicate get cited more than papers that can.

In other words if your goal is to craft a paper that draws attention, that's harder if you're being meticulous about limiting yourself to saying to what evidence shows is clearly true.

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Re:Time to assume that health research is fraudulent until p... by lumost on Monday July 19, 2021 @06:15PM (#27887922)
Unfortunately this will be a baseline that keeps moving. scientists compete on publications so they will make more sensationalist headlines, There will then be more sensationalist headlines to compete with forcing fraud/or irrational exuberance.
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