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by seydor 1389 days ago
> but I think it's warranted for scientists to make "inflated" claims to get their research noticed.

Researchers are scientists, not marketing-people. If you really want to impact policy, go into politics. Otherwise it's an authoritarian twist on what democracy is

What you are doing by makign a random list of events is even a travesty of science. How do these events compare to the past.

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> Researchers are scientists, not marketing-people

Guess you don’t work in academia.

i do. and part of the reason i will leave is how disgusted i am with that system
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