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Re:'Serious errors' in research linking deaths to red meat by pca006132 on Monday September 05, 2022 @01:13PM (#32726649)
No, they do write tests, just

1. Include the ones that passed and discard those that failed. 2. Run the tests several times and report only the best result. 3. Keep some of the details secret (data, some weird parameters, or maybe the whole repository), tweak something, run again, get some nice figures and publish a new paper.

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Re:'Serious errors' in research linking deaths to red meat by WalterBright on Monday September 05, 2022 @02:03PM (#32727209)
Caltech has Millikan's (oil drop experiment demonstrating quantization of charge) notebooks. He repeated the experiment until the data fit his theory.

Fortunately, he turned out to be right.

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