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> As for why non-replicable results are cited more, I'd speculate that non-replicable results are often more unintuitive and surprising

I mean, a kind of well known thing is that in general, something false can be more interesting than something true, since it has more degrees of freedom. You can make up anything you want - the truth has to conform to what's actually real.




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