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How can one fall so low as to falsify cancer research.
by MrBuddyCasino 3y ago
How can one fall so low as to falsify cancer research.
- zelon88 3y ago"One white lie will get me that $10m grant, which I will spend curing cancer. Therefore my white lie is clearly worth it." Typical risk/reward ratio.
- InitialLastName 3y agoNot justifying it on scientific purity grounds, but if you genuinely believe that your treatment is effective (and you are heavily incentivized to come up with an effective treatment), but your study result is unconvincing for reasons you don't think are invalidating, it might be easy to convince yourself that "tweaking the presentation" in a way that moves the treatment forward could save lives.