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kaba0 on July 27, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: We don't know how to fix science (2021)

But isn’t the solution to the former more funding? Make studies that check on existing ones worthy (especially if they contradict those!)

throwoutway on July 28, 2022 [–]

There’s a general inability to replicate as researchers aren’t publishing their data (probably because they’d be caught).

This is an incentive problem, and more funding does not fix that issue

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