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RE: Bugs in the news: Corn snot helping end hunger and pollution
@bengy Another piece of the problem is the push to shovel papers out as quickly as possible. Combine that with a bias against negative results and massive (but not deliberate) misunderstanding of stats, and well...
Oh yes, all of those have contributed in a systemic way (with perverse incentives). The stats problem is depressingly large (especially in the non physical sciences)...