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Scientific unprogress... (reddthat.com)
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[–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

It was one "scientist" who by all accounts was a massive fraud and anyone with any semblance of smarts recognised that almost immediately. That the world is full of idiots is the problem.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago*

    Wakefield did manage to fool peer reviewers and got his paper published in Lancet, a top-tier medical journal (and it took them 12 years to fully retract that paper). So I wouldn't say people recognized that immediately.

    (And I just kinda hate "things were better in the past" type of arguments, in general. Things were shit back then, and things are shit now.)

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