Communicating results allows scientists to learn from each other's results.
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True, scientists often talk to each other to figure out if their results were similar and what they could have done better.

Although, talking to other scientists does have risks, other scientists could copy your work and further better it.

So, your final answer is TRUE, sorry for the long answer, I needed to have a word count about 20 characters and then I got carried away! lol

electric field is a function of 1/r^2

yes, the force per unit charge for a point charge is inverse square law.