> Accusing it of leading to the things you talked about is a non sequitur. I didn't say the replication crisis lead to bad incentives. I cited it as evidence b

> Accusing it of leading to the things you talked about is a non sequitur. I didn't say the replication crisis lead to bad incentives. I cited it as evidence bad incentives exist. > But insisting that its primary problem is that grant writers are a pack of pathological liars I didn't say remotely that. Academics have incentives to make their work sound overly impressive, and many are playing this game. That doesn't mean every grant writer is a pathological liar, but it's very naive to think they aren't incentivised to oversell findings, and many do.