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by GeekyBear 633 days ago
Alternately, look at one recent example of massive waste as a result of accepting fraudulent research as valid.

> Hundreds of millions of dollars and [16] years of research across an entire field may have been wasted due to potentially falsified data that helped lay the foundation for the leading hypothesis of what causes Alzheimer’s disease.

https://globalnews.ca/news/9016221/alzheimers-research-poten...