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by trapperkeeper74 3181 days ago
There are many, many BS papers because of the mass-production death-march researchers are told to produce, low p-value and sample size standards and

”Is Most Published Reseach Wrong?” (Veritasium, 2016)

https://youtu.be/42QuXLucH3Q

Which is about an essay from 2005: http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371%2Fj...

This doesn’t mean adversarial and critical feedback are bad, it means dis/incentives, politics and standards need adjustments.