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Maybe both have the same cause, the need to publish important(-looking) results, or perish? Being scientifically rigorous may take a back seat: unimpressive papers are hard or impossible to publish.

Structurally it's similar to clickbait. I heard that such an incentive structure did bad things to journalism.




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