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Shame, or its avoidance, is an incentive.

When researchers become shameless cheats science suffers.

The depressing conclusion is that we need to change the incentives to work in a world without shame. This may work to some extent, but the result will certainly be worse than a world in which most researchers try to do the right thing.



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