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No, the problem is much wider than just researchers. If for example the public, or at least the media, didn’t buy the bullshit they were selling (with high p values, non-public data and other shoddy statistical hacks), there wouldn’t be any replication crisis either. The general problem is that just stamping the word “science” on a black box that smells of poo gives it much more credibility than it should, and it often also prevents people from thinking critically.



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