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This didn't even cover the most frequent type of fraud which is to redo the experiment, or reanalyze the data until a sample of noise looks like a signal and th
by BenoitEssiambre 8y ago
This didn't even cover the most frequent type of fraud which is to redo the experiment, or reanalyze the data until a sample of noise looks like a signal and then pretend you found something (as illustrated here: https://www.xkcd.com/882/ https://www.xkcd.com/882/).
I got out of academia and stopped trusting most university research because I observed too much of this culture of fraud.