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by qsort 1275 days ago
This is just a bad take which was artificially pushed for pseudo-political reasons.

That we have no hard and fast rules for what is good science does not mean that anything goes. This is like saying that because it's impossible to write perfectly safe C++ programs, then we should just use raw pointers. Imprecise methods that work with a certain probability still have value.

Leaps of logic like that are popular even more generally and they leave me speachless.

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> This is like saying that because it's impossible to write perfectly safe C++ programs, then we should just use raw pointers.

Anything goes does not imply a proscription like that.