NIH-funded research is full of corruption and waste and produces faulty, unreproducible results. Sweeping reforms are needed.

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The NBA is too soft. That’s what some critics of the league have been saying for the better part of the last two decades, which have coincided with a more polished player in the era of LeBron James.