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Indeed. I'd heard about this before, so this is not news.
This is what I want to hear more about. Given 5% dupes, how much significance and effect-size does this leech away? My intuition says this could explain a non-zero number of failed drugs, but not the entire dismal litany, but intuition is far inferior to some worked-out numbers.