Comment by readthenotes1

Here's how the razor applies: There is no real malice behind all the fraud in science publications. The authors aren't usually out to specifically harm others.

However, in the long run it is stupid because of two and a half reasons:

- it reduces people's trust in science because it is obvious we cannot trust the scientists which in the long run will reduce public funding for The grift

- it causes misallocation of funds by people misled by the grift and this may lead you actual harm (e.g., what if you catch Alzheimer's but there is no cure because you lied about the causes 20 years ago?)

1/2- there is a chance that you will get caught, and like the former president of Stanford, not be allowed to continue bilking the gullible. This only gets half a point because the repercussions are generally not immediate and definitely not devastating to those who do it skillfully.