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But for another and much more important thing, the obvious logical consequence of discarding older research papers as presumed to be invalid, was that all it took for previous research findings to be discredited was the tick of the clock.

If you just drew a moving line 5 years ago across the scientific corpus, then all you had to do to invalidate a finding is *wait*. You didn't actually have to *prove it wrong*. You could just airly wave your hand and say, Well you know that was from way back when.

And THAT made my skin crawl.

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