A recent paper, titled "The Natural Selection of Bad Science", published on the Royal Society's open science website, attempts to answer this intriguing and important question.

最近发表在英国皇家学会开放科学网站上的一篇题为《烂科学的自然选择》的论文，试图回答这个有趣而重要的问题。

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Write your problem or question on a piece of paper in such a fashion that "yes" or "no" could be the answer.

在一张纸上写下你的问题，这个问题应该是可以直接用“是”或“否”来回答的。

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Joining forces with HSBC, which has big businesses in many places, may make sense on paper, but whether the two could work together is open to question.

跟在很多地方拥有大生意的HSBC联合起来，桌面上来说可能有点意思，但是这两家到底肯不肯在一起合作仍然是个大问题。

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Quickly,I wrote a question on another piece of paper.

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Suppose there is an epiphany at 11:54 and you get a perfect score on that question 25% and it is worth 25% of the paper.

假设在11：54的时候灵感来了4,你在那个问题上有一个完美的分数,占试卷的。

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Actually, he had opened by plunging straight into his supplementary - without asking the warm-up question on the order paper.

BBC: Serious issues at first minister's questions

On the subject of a referendum, Lord Wallace made clear that "a single question was the preferred position of the UK government", rather than a second question on further devolution being included on the ballot paper.

BBC: Scotland Bill

The newspaper said that for much of last October, the State Department sent couriers around the world with sensitive information on paper and limited access to the computers in question.

CNN: State Department admits to flaws in computer system