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by paulsutter 4805 days ago
The solution is for authors to routinely publish the datasets behind their research.

Unlikely though, for the same reason that Herndon didn't contact Reinhart and Rogoff about the error. Academics are even more interested in getting attention than they are in getting to the truth.

Which is why this episode is more likely to discourage publication of data than encourage it.

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> Academics are even more interested in getting attention than they are in getting to the truth.

untrue and insulting

> Which is why this episode is more likely to discourage publication of data than encourage it.

Why would you expect this? It seems more likely that data and the software used to produce results will have to be open sourced and verifiable in the future.