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Capital S “Science” where the goal is continuous funding and reputation growth are in a likely unresolvable tizzy as long as long as humans have confirmation bias and a desire to be right. There’s far too much reason to cheat and to lie with p values, even if unintentionally. This isn’t new, it’s just had a light shown on it.

Applied sciences where the end goal needs to be something that actually works and not just getting published are in much better shape and arguably innately of more value to begin with.



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


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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