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Interview with Liam Bright on Scientific Orthodoxy, Reform Efforts & DTG's Philosophy

Decoding the Gurus

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How to Catch and Punish Fraud

There is a tendency to look at the figures who engage in fraud as villains of the scientific world. But you seem to argue that a lot of the issues lie in systemic factors and structures of science. And we can't address it by simply teaching people that fraud is bad, or detecting individual cases of fraud. Like taking them on more structural, systemicpro so i certainly think so. I mean, if there was a reliable means of catching and punishing fraud, that would itself be a systematic thing. That would change the incentives of people involved. If you're very liket get caught. Wed what one of the issues is? It's risly hard to get caught so people talk about reputation

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