Something I think about a lot is that studies don't get retracted because they're bad, they get retracted because they are famous
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And that's why I say only famous research gets retracted. There are exceptions to the rule, of course, but generally it holds surprisingly well
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Anyway, when people get mad about how the papers that are retracted tend to be the big flashy studies I just think that they are ignorant about how the whole error-checking in science thing works
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Also, I cannot stress enough how foolish it makes you look if you say "why are you only going after THESE studies and not all the bad ones?" Error detection in science is a job that pays in sleepless nights and ennui. No one pays us to do any of this
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