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With that thesis the author can get famous, where is his incentive to be honest about it?

Well, this article is about a scientist, or statistician, alleging that the results are "speculation". She is being polite of course and in the scientific lingo she is probably saying that he is a fraud. So that is his incentive, he can be honest and find a "true" goldmine, or gamble and either go to the top or sink to the bottom.



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