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By this argument, chemists should never wash glassware. Keep re-using it until it's too dirty, then through it out and make new beakers.

Your tools affect the quality of your work. Work with shitty tools, get shitty results.

I'll start believing your argument when scientists actually start publishing the code to go with their papers and make it reproducible.

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Two thirds of the codes in my field are on github. And for most others you can get a copy if you ask politely by email. That said I would appreciate it if journals not only had author, title, date and affiliation in the meta data, but also a git url and commit ID.

Re-using code doesn't wear it out or contaminate it. This is one of the worst analogies I've heard here.