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neycoda 7 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Fraud, so much fraud

More often than not in scientific fraud I've seen the underlying motives be personal beliefs than financial. This is why science needs to be much stronger in weeding out the charlatans.

belief-in-money 7 months ago [–]

[citation needed]

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I conjecture the most common underlying motive is to embellish cv, and climb the academic ladder.

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