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57 Post author: Bakkot 12 March 2012 06:31PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 13 March 2012 07:05:13AM 1 point [-]

Certainly. I think the same principle applies in many of the listed cases, though. Scientific publications in particular likely developed their current standards at least partially because in the past they filtered for genuinely revolutionary results.

One might as easily say that Campbell's Law is a sub-principle of the observed phenomenon.