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The Implications of a Novel Positive Tidy Story
The rules for what makes research publishable are more important than what makes it accurate. Scientists advance in their careers by publishing things, and finding novel results is a good way to do so. But science is usually asking questions about things that we don't understand yet. So getting that nice and clean story is very hard. We get a lot of false starts. It takes a long time to get to a conclusion where everything is tied together in a nice bow.