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by reubens 2474 days ago
Could you expand on what you mean by the 'abuse of knowledge'?

I agree that the focus on this metric negatively influences research outcomes, which extends to university structuring, but I'd like to hear your thoughts on how this extends to abuse of knowledge in general.

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> Could you expand on what you mean by the 'abuse of knowledge'?

A nice way of saying "lying". Learning how to game the statistics (e.g. publish the 20th experiment that showed significance but fail to mention the other 19).

I think by knowledge they meant information asymmetry.