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by PaulDavisThe1st 1752 days ago
> A lot of science today is basically parallel construction. You start with a sexy story that you know will get you a lot of press, like "promising you will be honest actually makes you behave in an honest way" and then you just make that paper happen, however you can.

Gigantic accusation, zero evidence.

If this was a paper, rather than an HN comment, I'd say there was every chance that it would be self-illustrating.