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title: 'Link: Always the same warning signs'
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date: 2023-06-14T19:29:00.425Z
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slug: 2023-06-14-link-always-the-same-warning-signs
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author: Thomas Wilson
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I came across a link to [Always the Same Warning Signs](https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/always-same-warning-signs) (science.org) while browsing Hacker News.
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It goes over some of the warning signs around revolutionary (and lucrative) commercial science breakthroughs, like in pharmacology. Specifically, what if it seems too good to be true.
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The piece gives three warning signs which ring true in an engineering setting:
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1. Only one person can get this great stuff to work
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2. Legitimate questions are met with stonewalling
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3. Important data are missing or kept secret.
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