When a scientific result of extraordinary potential arises, many scientists will try to reproduce it (and some non-scientists may try to exploit it). If after a while, they still can't, it's a pretty clear sign it was a scam.
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Many COVID-19 cures will go the way of cold fusion & stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency.
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If you want to scam your way to a scientific career, prefer releasing mediocre results, as they will avoid scrutiny more easily. Extraordinary results create extraordinary reproduction incentives.
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It's harder to give a TED Talk if the results aren't extraordinary. :-)
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We must mention too , that scamming will lead to an average carrier at most, if not the temporary one.
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An "average" career in academia is a fantastic win for the kind of person who has no integrity and can't be bothered to do their job correctly. In the US it's a fantastic win for most people, really. Consider tenure vs people in the gig economy or who work in a service job.
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Half of Psych Papers cant be reproduced. I've heard the key to gaming the system create a 'citation racket' as Nassim Talen says.
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Can some of us form a team to work on COVID-19 team to do ML/DL projects using super computing resources available through? https://www.covid19-hpc-consortium.org/
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