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		ak_111 10 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Fraud, so much fraud I am more interested in how it occurs in the hard sciences. How can a scientific result accumulate a huge amount of citations without its effect not being replicated in many different contexts.

jldugger 10 months ago [–]

Consider how hard it is to publish a negative result, especially when it fails to reproduce "established" science.

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