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Re:50% of neuroscience papers suffer from a major statistica... by scott_s on Thursday December 01, 2011 @03:59PM (#3301365)
It was not clear that you were using "groundbreaking" facetiously. Hence my confusion.

I agree there are problems with how science works right now, and I agree on what the problems are. I disagree on the weights of the incentives, though. You describe "rampant" fraud. I have observed none. Then my conclusion is that the claim that fraud is rampant is incorrect.

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Re:50% of neuroscience papers suffer from a major statistica... by forensic on Saturday December 03, 2011 @11:09PM (#3309841)
>I have observed none.

How hard have you looked and what is your definition of fraud?

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