'There is a broader lesson to be drawn about the scientific process. Scientific institutions favour research that delivers quantity over quality, novelty over robustness and the production of original claims rather than the scrutiny of familiar ones. The result, say researchers Paul Smaldino and Richard McElreath, has been “the natural selection of bad science”, a place where good work suffers and bad work thrives.'

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