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March 20, 2025

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Hi Scholar,

We’ve got a fairly long Letter this week. To quote French philosopher and mathematician, Blaise Pascal:

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I would have written a shorter letter, but did not have the time.

NEWS ANALYSIS

Penny for Your Thoughts, Reviewer 2?
- The Tatler

Technically this isn’t “news” in the traditional sense because the website in question - ResearchHub - has been around since about 2020. But it did come to our attention through a X/Twitter post that went live 2 days ago:

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