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Behind the Bastards

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Why Is Peer Review Not Serving Its Function?

Kara: The entire substantive arguments of this paper hinges on an absolutely enormous lie. They've deliberately picked the lowest number of cops they can find any, and so they picked 697,000 from basically like it's, they picked this number from an FBI reporting thing. And then here's from Carrick at Thomas, who's a piece about this quote, the professors, the professor then admitted privately over email that the US census count is actually 1,227,788 police. That's 76% higher for the number they chose to use the public article. Kara: Maybe it's technically possible that University of Chicago just holds its students to more rigorous standards than Harvard or MIT whose journal

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