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There unfortunately are too many perverse incentives that encourage fraudulent studies. Everyone should take findings "established in the literature" with a grain of salt. We should also incorporate more intuition and first-principles reasoning, i.e. obesity is a harmful state for humans even if 100 RCTs proved otherwise.


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