Science depends on self-correction. Its greatest strength isn’t that researchers are superhuman and never make mistakes - we all make them with embarrassing regularity - but that mistakes are exposed, challenged, replicated, and, when necessary, dragged out in the open and executed. A flawed result should not be allowed to linger like an awkward relative
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