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It seems they're "precarious" because massive amounts of research is "fraudulent" or at minimum plagued with errors.

If my code was in a similar state, I would consider my career "precarious" or "at risk" too.



Indeed. It seems likely that there are prominent people in these fields, with decades of research and publishing behind them, almost all of it based on bad statistical methods. Naturally, there is a certain amount of panic.




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