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> ...think are important to continue doing research on, and that some of them fudged it, exaggerated a bit, and polished it a bit to make it easier to "sell" it to the politicians in charge of handing out the grant money.

This is precisely the kind of thinking that got the United States into the War in Iraq.

Isn't that how all politics are conducted? It would be non-trivial to come up with a better system, too.

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