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My impression is that brilliant scientists are more likely to know the difference between cheating and not cheating. The ones who then become prominent scientists are either very lucky, very socially skilled, or willing to violate their principles and cheat because they have to in order to keep up with their less brilliant colleagues who always cheat because they don't really know better.

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Is any contributor willing to go on the record that they're a fairly good and practiced liar? That, for example, they lie to obfuscate privelege and inequities from which they benefit? I think there are probably real problems with non-anonymous blogging and that kind of admission.

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