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{{fmt/quote|The reasons for this distrust are many: fraud ''[...]''; thousands of retracted papers (most justified, some not); massive failure to replicate studies; and weak experimental and analytic methods. Not to mention the [[authoritarian]] failure of the medical-science establishment over the [[COVID-19|Covid]] epidemic.}} ... {{fmt/quote|Among the causes of these problems are bad incentives on campus and elsewhere, a system that encourages careerism over love of knowledge, and epistemologically irrelevant race-and-sex policies (aka [[DEI]]). Another problem, however, is how basic science is [[science funding|funded]].}}