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This is wrong-headed in the extreme.

What we should demand is scientific results that have FAILED.

When we see a p=0.05, but we don't know that this SAME EXACT EXPERIMENT has been run 20 times before, we're really screwing ourselves over.

Relevant: https://xkcd.com/882/




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