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Apr 10, 2021Liked by el gato malo

More like an inward coil, decreasing in scholarship and scientific cross section.

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If I hear someone scream peer review one more time... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1420798/

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Someone pithily called this "idea laundering." I thought that was brilliant!

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Excellent. I'd suggest there's one more segment in here that might be described something like this: Seek funding to study the problem, which is then found to be worse than imagined and warranting of more research.

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