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Biology has probably had the most replication scandals of the hard sciences, but if you look back 10 years, there have been several tangible breakthroughs. CRISPR, mRNA vaccines, Cystic Fibrosis treatments, malaria vaccine, and that’s just off the top of my head.

So let’s not throw the baby out with a bathwater on Science.

I would be interested to see what other peoples comparable list would be for the social sciences – I don’t know enough to say that “absence of evidence is evidence of absence“



Here's the thing: even some of the listed items "off the top of your head" as counterexamples are entirely fraudulent.

I don't think anybody's trying to throw the baby out with the bathwater.

This is entirely serious. But most people have no idea how broad and deep the reach of the hard science integrity problem goes (at least in biology).

Not only that, but it's HARD for people to know, and there are with 100% certainty efforts to keep it that way.




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