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I'd say "too bad" for slow researchers. If someone can reproduce your results and publish a quality paper before you, that is better for society.

Nobody gets to "own" an idea. This possessiveness and reputational greed is what is causing all of these problems.

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In my experience as a researcher, this competitiveness and haste to publish leads very frequently to lower quality in the research. For a researcher's career is often more profitable to quickly publish a half-baked paper than ensuring that everything is correct and well explained. This is a quite difficult problem to solve.

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