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by james_ash 4805 days ago
Feynman talked about an "extra" kind of integrity, where one bends over backwards to show how one might be wrong. In my field (organic chemistry), this is de rigeur, and it is enforced by the fact that you can release a paper on one day and have people report on how replicable it is within 24h.

For a much fuzzier field like economics, where the line between knowledge and opinion is extremely blurry, this "bending over backwards" to show how you might be wrong should be applied 100x .