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by cineticdaffodil 23 days ago
I still think we should allow for grant hunting. If you can disprove a paper, you get the grant money attached to it. Make it a economic worthy endavour to destroy bad science.
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How would you handle non-competitive grants
Safety deposists or insurrance by labs/universities- if your work is later refuted- your employer has to pay for that bad investment..
Then you would just fake your results in order to steal someone's grant
Pssht - Let them fight..