Neuroskeptic: The 9 Circles of Scientific Hell

Neuroskeptic hits a home run:

"Dante's Inferno: a classic of world literature, the definitive statement of the mediaeval Christian world-view, the first major work in the Italian language, and the basis for a violent videogame. The poem offers a tour through the nine increasingly horrible levels of Hell, in which sinners are tormented forever.

But Dante lived before the era of modern science. I thought I'd update his scheme to explain what happens to those guilty of various scientific sins, ranging from the commonplace to the shocking.

Bear in mind that Dante's Hell had a place for everyone, and it was only Christ's intervention that saved anyone from it; even "good" people went to Hell because everyone sins. But they are still sins. Likewise, very few scientists (and I'm certainly not one of them) would be able to avoid being condemned to some level of this Inferno... but, that's no excuse....
But Dante lived before the era of modern science. I thought I'd update his scheme to explain what happens to those guilty of various scientific sins, ranging from the commonplace to the shocking.
Bear in mind that Dante's Hell had a place for everyone, and it was only Christ's intervention that saved anyone from it; even "good" people went to Hell because everyone sins. But they are still sins. Likewise, very few scientists (and I'm certainly not one of them) would be able to avoid being condemned to some level of this Inferno... 

but, that's no excuse..."

Go there, or go to Hell @ Neuroskeptic: The 9 Circles of Scientific Hell:

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Perspectives on Psychological Science November 2012

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November 2012; 7 (6)

Special Section on Replicability in Psychological Science: A Crisis of Confidence?

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  • Harold Pashler and
   
  • Eric–Jan Wagenmakers

  Editors’ Introduction to the Special Section on Replicability in Psychological Science: A Crisis of Confidence?

  Perspectives on Psychological Science November 2012 7: 528-530,doi:10.1177/1745691612465253
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  • Harold Pashler and
   
  • Christine R. Harris

  Is the Replicability Crisis Overblown? Three Arguments Examined

  Perspectives on Psychological Science November 2012 7: 531-536,doi:10.1177/1745691612463401
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  • Matthew C. Makel, 
  • Jonathan A. Plucker, 
  • and Boyd Hegarty

  Replications in Psychology Research: How Often Do They Really Occur?

  Perspectives on Psychological Science November 2012 7: 537-542,doi:10.1177/1745691612460688
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  • Marjan Bakker, 
  • Annette van Dijk, 
  • and Jelte M. Wicherts

  The Rules of the Game Called Psychological Science

  Perspectives on Psychological Science November 2012 7: 543-554,doi:10.1177/1745691612459060
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  • Christopher J. Ferguson and
   
  • Moritz Heene

  A Vast Graveyard of Undead Theories: Publication Bias and Psychological Science’s Aversion to the Null

  Perspectives on Psychological Science November 2012 7: 555-561,doi:10.1177/1745691612459059
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  • Roger Giner-Sorolla

  Science or Art? How Aesthetic Standards Grease the Way Through the Publication Bottleneck but Undermine Science

  Perspectives on Psychological Science November 2012 7: 562-571,doi:10.1177/1745691612457576
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  • Olivier Klein, 
  • Stéphane Doyen, 
  • Christophe Leys, 
  • Pedro A. Magalhães de Saldanha da Gama, 
  • Sarah Miller, 
  • Laurence Questienne, 
  • and Axel Cleeremans

  Low Hopes, High Expectations: Expectancy Effects and the Replicability of Behavioral Experiments

  Perspectives on Psychological Science November 2012 7: 572-584,doi:10.1177/1745691612463704
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  • Gregory Francis

  The Psychology of Replication and Replication in Psychology

  Perspectives on Psychological Science November 2012 7: 585-594,doi:10.1177/1745691612459520
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  • Jeff Galak and
   
  • Tom Meyvis

  You Could Have Just Asked: Reply to Francis (2012)

  Perspectives on Psychological Science November 2012 7: 595-596,doi:10.1177/1745691612463079
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  • Uri Simonsohn

  It Does Not Follow: Evaluating the One-Off Publication Bias Critiques by Francis (2012a, 2012b, 2012c, 2012d, 2012e, in press)

  Perspectives on Psychological Science November 2012 7: 597-599,doi:10.1177/1745691612463399
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  • Michael C. Frank and
   
  • Rebecca Saxe

  Teaching Replication

  Perspectives on Psychological Science November 2012 7: 600-604,doi:10.1177/1745691612460686
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  • Jon E. Grahe, 
  • Alan Reifman, 
  • Anthony D. Hermann, 
  • Marie Walker, 
  • Kathryn C. Oleson, 
  • Michelle Nario-Redmond, 
  • and Richard P. Wiebe

  Harnessing the Undiscovered Resource of Student Research Projects

  Perspectives on Psychological Science November 2012 7: 605-607,doi:10.1177/1745691612459057
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  • Sander L. Koole and
   
  • Daniël Lakens

  Rewarding Replications: A Sure and Simple Way to Improve Psychological Science

  Perspectives on Psychological Science November 2012 7: 608-614,doi:10.1177/1745691612462586
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  • Brian A. Nosek, 
  • Jeffrey R. Spies, 
  • and Matt Motyl

  Scientific Utopia: II. Restructuring Incentives and Practices to Promote Truth Over Publishability

  Perspectives on Psychological Science November 2012 7: 615-631,doi:10.1177/1745691612459058
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  • Eric-Jan Wagenmakers, 
  • Ruud Wetzels, 
  • Denny Borsboom, 
  • Han L. J. van der Maas,
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  An Agenda for Purely Confirmatory Research

  Perspectives on Psychological Science November 2012 7: 632-638,doi:10.1177/1745691612463078
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  • Heather M. Fuchs, 
  • Mirjam Jenny, 
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  Psychologists Are Open to Change, yet Wary of Rules

  Perspectives on Psychological Science November 2012 7: 639-642,doi:10.1177/1745691612459521
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  • Neuroskeptic

  The Nine Circles of Scientific Hell

  Perspectives on Psychological Science November 2012 7: 643-644,doi:10.1177/1745691612459519
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  • John P. A. Ioannidis

  Why Science Is Not Necessarily Self-Correcting

  Perspectives on Psychological Science November 2012 7: 645-654,doi:10.1177/1745691612464056
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Special Section on Research Practices

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  • Barbara A. Spellman

  Introduction to the Special Section on Research Practices

  Perspectives on Psychological Science November 2012 7: 655-656,doi:10.1177/1745691612465075
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  • Open Science Collaboration

  An Open, Large-Scale, Collaborative Effort to Estimate the Reproducibility of Psychological Science

  Perspectives on Psychological Science November 2012 7: 657-660,doi:10.1177/1745691612462588
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  • Klaus Fiedler, 
  • Florian Kutzner, 
  • and Joachim I. Krueger

  The Long Way From α-Error Control to Validity Proper: Problems With a Short-Sighted False-Positive Debate

  Perspectives on Psychological Science November 2012 7: 661-669,doi:10.1177/1745691612462587
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  • Wolfgang Stroebe, 
  • Tom Postmes, 
  • and Russell Spears

  Scientific Misconduct and the Myth of Self-Correction in Science

  Perspectives on Psychological Science November 2012 7: 670-688,doi:10.1177/1745691612460687
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  • Matthew J. Gullo and
   
  • John G. O’Gorman

  DSM-5 Task Force Proposes Controversial Diagnosis for Dishonest Scientists

  Perspectives on Psychological Science November 2012 7: 689,doi:10.1177/1745691612460689
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  See also
  
  

  GMO Statistics Part 24. Correlations without Causation.