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Nature's and Science's shenanigans are not publishing papers that turn out to be wrong, it's that (1) when contrary data comes up they refuse to publish it, as in this case, and (2) really questionable editorial policies, where articles get peer-reviewed by the wrong audience, and on-the-face obviously-wrong to anybody in the field papers still get published.

Every journal publishes novel and statistically significant findings, and probably encounter similar rates of type 1 error as Nature and Science. It's just that Nature and Science are more susceptible to human politicking and don't seem to face up to it.



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