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 Science today is just wanking off the guy to your left. 
 That and the reproducability crises outlined  by John Ionidis.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16060722/ 
 No incentives to verify, and then we get this:
https://theconversation.com/what-allegations-of-alzheimers-research-fraud-mean-for-patients-187911

in one sense - Cuz pROgrEs and ImPaKt.
in another sense, the science version of working with old code and the related thread.

Those are just two possible reasons that come out of a very entangled situation of bad incentives.

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