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by kobieyc 1801 days ago
Fraud vs incompetence is an important dimension here. I think a lot of the time people are just incompetent. In fact I assume that > 80% of scientific papers in fields with high levels of environmental noise (social science, environment science, medical, etc) are bad science.

So TL;DR I just assume incompetence instead of fraud.