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Lying increases trust in science, study finds (phys.org)
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[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

The missing piece is that hiding bad news should be harder. For example, if you're a researcher and all you claim from your research are the good news, people (and the ideal Bayesian agent) should immediately suspect "maybe they're hiding the bad news".