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		_tom_ on Sept 28, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Fraud, so much fraud And yet, it's common. And it can pay off. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesca_Gino That guy has a channel on fraud. Also check out Data Colada: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Colada This isn't theoretical, there's a lot of it going on.

ak_111 on Sept 28, 2024 [–]

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 on Sept 28, 2024 | [–]

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

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