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      <title>The Uncertain Origins of Aspirin</title>
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      <description>&#xA;  &lt;p class=&#34;bafflegab-bookmark&#34;&gt;Bookmarked &lt;a class=&#34;u-bookmark-of&#34; href=&#34;https://press.asimov.com/articles/aspirin&#34;&gt;https://press.asimov.com/articles/aspirin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;</description>
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      <title>Lying increases trust in science, study finds</title>
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      <title>On Melons and Melancholy | Los Angeles Review of Books</title>
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      <title>The reanimation of pseudoscience in machine learning and its ethical repercussions: Patterns</title>
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      <title>Nature Briefing</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2024 08:50:22 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Evidence of absence - Wikipedia</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 29 Oct 2023 13:59:32 +0200</pubDate>
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      <description>&#xA;  &lt;p class=&#34;bafflegab-bookmark&#34;&gt;Bookmarked &lt;a class=&#34;u-bookmark-of&#34; href=&#34;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidence_of_absence&#34;&gt;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidence_of_absence&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;</description>
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      <title>Science is a strong-link problem - by Adam Mastroianni</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 02 Sep 2023 14:17:52 +0200</pubDate>
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      <description>&#xA;  &lt;p class=&#34;bafflegab-bookmark&#34;&gt;Bookmarked &lt;a class=&#34;u-bookmark-of&#34; href=&#34;https://www.experimental-history.com/p/science-is-a-strong-link-problem&#34;&gt;https://www.experimental-history.com/p/science-is-a-strong-link-problem&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;div class=&#34;e-content&#34;&gt;&lt;p&gt;I’ve realized that when scientists tell me, “We need to prevent bad research from being published!” they often mean, “We need to prevent people from gaining academic status that they don’t deserve!” That is, to them, the problem with bad research isn’t really that it distorts the scientific record. The problem with bad research is that it’s cheating.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&#xA;</description>
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      <title>What does it take to get AI to work like a scientist? | Ars Technica</title>
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      <description>&#xA;  &lt;p class=&#34;bafflegab-bookmark&#34;&gt;Bookmarked &lt;a class=&#34;u-bookmark-of&#34; href=&#34;https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/08/what-does-it-take-to-get-ai-to-work-like-a-scientist/&#34;&gt;https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/08/what-does-it-take-to-get-ai-to-work-like-a-scientist/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;</description>
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      <title>Philosophy of Science 101: What Is the Problem of Induction?</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Aug 2023 06:50:59 +0200</pubDate>
      <category>philosophy-of-science</category>
      <description>&#xA;  &lt;p class=&#34;bafflegab-bookmark&#34;&gt;Bookmarked &lt;a class=&#34;u-bookmark-of&#34; href=&#34;https://www.thecollector.com/problem-of-induction-philosophy-of-science/&#34;&gt;https://www.thecollector.com/problem-of-induction-philosophy-of-science/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;</description>
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      <title>Epistemic diversity and industrial selection bias | SpringerLink</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 20 May 2023 13:06:27 +0200</pubDate>
      <category>philosophy-of-science</category>
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      <description>&#xA;  &lt;p class=&#34;bafflegab-bookmark&#34;&gt;Bookmarked &lt;a class=&#34;u-bookmark-of&#34; href=&#34;https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-023-04158-7&#34;&gt;https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-023-04158-7&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;div class=&#34;e-content&#34;&gt;&lt;p&gt;The growing privatization of scientific research, on the contrary, has raised important concerns for philosophers of science, especially with respect to the growing sources of biases in research that it seems to promote.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&#xA;</description>
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      <title>How to identify a scientific fact | OUPblog</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2022 12:43:41 +0200</pubDate>
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      <description>&#xA;  &lt;p class=&#34;bafflegab-bookmark&#34;&gt;Bookmarked &lt;a class=&#34;u-bookmark-of&#34; href=&#34;https://blog.oup.com/2022/11/how-to-identify-a-scientific-fact/&#34;&gt;https://blog.oup.com/2022/11/how-to-identify-a-scientific-fact/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;</description>
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      <title>The social sciences are useless. So why do we study them? Here’s a good reason: | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 20 Mar 2022 13:27:20 +0200</pubDate>
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      <description>&#xA;  &lt;p class=&#34;bafflegab-bookmark&#34;&gt;Bookmarked &lt;a class=&#34;u-bookmark-of&#34; href=&#34;https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2021/03/12/the-social-sciences-are-useless-so-why-do-we-study-them-heres-a-good-reason/&#34;&gt;https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2021/03/12/the-social-sciences-are-useless-so-why-do-we-study-them-heres-a-good-reason/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;div class=&#34;e-content&#34;&gt;&lt;p&gt;In summary: the utilitarian motivation for the natural sciences is that can make us healthier, happier, and more comfortable. The utilitarian motivation for the social sciences is they can protect us from bad social-science reasoning. It’s a lesser thing, but that’s what we’ve got, and it’s not nothing.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&#xA;</description>
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      <title>Why “Trusting the Science” Is Complicated - Los Angeles Review of Books</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2021 19:11:13 +0200</pubDate>
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      <description>&#xA;  &lt;p class=&#34;bafflegab-bookmark&#34;&gt;Bookmarked &lt;a class=&#34;u-bookmark-of&#34; href=&#34;https://www.lareviewofbooks.org/article/why-trusting-the-science-is-complicated/&#34;&gt;https://www.lareviewofbooks.org/article/why-trusting-the-science-is-complicated/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;</description>
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      <title>What&#39;s Wrong with Social Science and How to Fix It: Reflections After Reading 2578 Papers | Fantastic Anachronism</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2020 08:43:14 +0200</pubDate>
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      <category>fraud</category>
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      <title>The Virtue of Scientific Thinking | Boston Review</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2015 10:24:23 +0200</pubDate>
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      <description>&#xA;  &lt;p class=&#34;bafflegab-bookmark&#34;&gt;Bookmarked &lt;a class=&#34;u-bookmark-of&#34; href=&#34;http://bostonreview.net/steven-shapin-scientism-virtue/&#34;&gt;http://bostonreview.net/steven-shapin-scientism-virtue/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;</description>
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      <title>Scientists Are Wrong All the Time, and That&#39;s Fantastic | WIRED</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2015 21:09:47 +0200</pubDate>
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      <description>&#xA;  &lt;p class=&#34;bafflegab-bookmark&#34;&gt;Bookmarked &lt;a class=&#34;u-bookmark-of&#34; href=&#34;http://www.wired.com/2015/02/scientists-wrong-time-thats-fantastic/&#34;&gt;http://www.wired.com/2015/02/scientists-wrong-time-thats-fantastic/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;</description>
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      <title>How Bad Software Leads to Bad Science | Motherboard</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2014 17:23:55 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>is_the_scientific_paper_fraudulent?</title>
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      <description>&#xA;  &lt;p class=&#34;bafflegab-bookmark&#34;&gt;Bookmarked &lt;a class=&#34;u-bookmark-of&#34; href=&#34;http://blog.thegrandlocus.com/static/misc/is_the_scientific_paper_fraudulent.pdf&#34;&gt;http://blog.thegrandlocus.com/static/misc/is_the_scientific_paper_fraudulent.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;</description>
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      <title>Scientific consensus has gotten a bad reputation—and it doesn’t deserve it | Ars Technica</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2014 20:04:40 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2014 22:20:48 +0200</pubDate>
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