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With the rise of "big data", and "machine learning", we should painfully expect shit-science to become the norm (if it's not already). If you ever read a research paper somewhere in the bio-something space, you'll share the sentiment ("double-blinded this... double-blinded that... our unpublished data analysis pipeline... 96% accuracy")


I particularly enjoy the re-discovery of numerical integration in 1994 by a medical researcher: https://fliptomato.wordpress.com/2007/03/19/medical-research...




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