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> I think that prophecies like this are fundamentally unsound and unscientific.

Well, the study is literal science from a scientific institution, compared to an internet comment so... It wins here.



It does not. There is a lot of useless papers produced because of the "publish or perish" pressure, and even harder sciences have a massive reproduction crisis.

Feynman diagnosed this sort of cosplay as "cargo-cult science" decades ago.


There are a greater number of useless internet posts produced within the same period, and the `useless/total` ratio is higher for internet posts than for scientific papers.




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