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One person does something bad and you doubt the entire discipline?
Accept that perfect doesn't exist. Some people will make mistakes. Some will be outright evil. But science is the best method we have for understanding the world around us. Nobody has ever come up with a better way.
One person doing something bad? You clearly didn't read the article.
And to suggest that our scientific research institutions shouldn't be scrutinized or there isn't room to improve the process is a little naive.
You think this suggests there should be no scrutiny?
Understanding that there will be mistakes and bad actors means taking care to scrutinize. That's why we have things like peer review.
But ey didn't suggest that 🤔