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		abnry on Aug 6, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Replace peer review with “peer replication” (2021) If that's the case, then don't claim confidence in the work or make policy decisions based off of it. If there is no epistemological humility, then yes, it is still BS.

Levitz on Aug 6, 2023 [–]

If any study costs X, the study and the replication costs somewhere in the ballpark of 2*X. This is not trivial.

abnry on Aug 6, 2023 | [–]

But this is science we are talking about. A one-off lucky novel result should not be good enough. Why should our standards and our funding be so low?

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