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The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

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The Three Motives for Scientific Disadvantage

Study: 14% of researchers admit to falsification and 72% for other questionable research practices. Why does this happen? Scientists are people to break news crazy, it's a competitive field. David Goldstein identifies three motives for doing it; your pressure naturally,. Knowing the answer to the problem they were considering and believing that it was unnecessary to do the work properly.

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