Scientists have long preferred the simplest possible explanation of their data. More recently, a worrying trend to favour unnecessarily complex interpretations has taken hold.
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Mazin, I. Inverse Occam’s razor. Nat. Phys. 18, 367–368 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-022-01575-2
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