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 '''Eric:''' Right.
-'''Bret:''' -in my paper, which is the natural thing to do. And she says, “we're not going to publish it. We're going to keep the information “in house.” That was her phrase. I was too young to understand what the hell she was talking about.
+'''Bret:''' -in my paper, which is the natural thing to do. And she says, “we're not going to publish it. We're going to keep the information <em>in-house</em>. That was her phrase. I was too young to understand what the hell she was talking about.
 '''Eric:''' I'll be honest, I'm 54 and I don't quite understand it myself.
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 '''Bret:''' ‘-then I can start predicting other results. Nobody will know how I am doing that thing. I will look like a super genius.’ And so, holding it [italics]in house[italics] is a mechanism for a whole slew of papers.
-'''Eric:''' -to be, to be 100%-you can afford to bend over backwards and not make inferences. Let's say the following: Holding it [italics]in house[italics] is a seemingly inexplicable decision in science, but for the fact that it fits at least one story of this kind, which is that it is consistent with wishing to publish a stream, rather than the source of the information that would allow you—so you can either do one discovery or you can do a stream of predictions, and that makes a certain amount of sense, given the ruthlessly competitive grant-winning environment. And we don't know exactly what happened, but there is no world that I know of in which you're allowed to hold back that kind of information because, in part, of what's on the line.
+'''Eric:''' -to be, to be 100%-you can afford to bend over backwards and not make inferences. Let's say the following: Holding it <em>in house</em> is a seemingly inexplicable decision in science, but for the fact that it fits at least one story of this kind, which is that it is consistent with wishing to publish a stream, rather than the source of the information that would allow you—so you can either do one discovery or you can do a stream of predictions, and that makes a certain amount of sense, given the ruthlessly competitive grant-winning environment. And we don't know exactly what happened, but there is no world that I know of in which you're allowed to hold back that kind of information because, in part, of what's on the line.
 '''Bret:''' Right. So—