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by kcaj 547 days ago
Bad incentives lead to bad science.

The authors are from a Seattle non-profit called Toxic Free Future (https://toxicfreefuture.org/mission/https://toxicfreefuture....)

Had the mistake been made in the other direction, making the significance of their finding very small, would they have double checked their math? You bet they would have.