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While I agree this is a big problem, science should never be defined by a single article.

I was always taught that science is a tree of knowledge where you build off previous positive results, all of which collapse when an ancestor turns out to be false.




In this particular case, the person of interest published 800 widely cited papers. That seems like a considerable collapse.


I see this as a pruning process and an inevitable part of science.

But I would further argue against what others were saying about personal ethics. Science must remove the human as much as possible from the process.




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