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The trouble is, industrial researchers usually don't publish negative results or failures to reproduce. So it takes a long time to correct the published scientific record even if privately some people know it's wrong.


Indeed nobody tends to publish negative results or failures to reproduce unless there is already a monetary or social bounty on the question, it seems




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