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Uh oh, I've been exposed

To be fair, the professors are like this because the funding agencies---ie, the government and a handful of private groups---essentially refuse to fund duplication research. I thus think that the issue has broader origins than the attitudes of individual faculty.

This was a very well-written and interesting piece. I disagree with the general premise that this is generally related to thermodynamics, even at the nanoscale. Accumulated errors can be corrected with additional energy input---that's the premise of error-correcting codes used in DNA. Were it not for error-correction, DNA mutation rates would be much higher than we observe. In principle, couldn't living things develop similar machinery for correcting other accumulated errors (albeit at the expense of requiring additional energy).

The animation in the middle of that video was very informative, thank you.

Would it be premature to change my account password in response to this? Also, does anyone know if phone numbers associated with accounts are included in this breach?