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October 11, 2012 01:55 pm PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/NRrDApo13kM/fraud-failure-and-fubar-in-s.html
Fraud, failure, and FUBAR in science
Here's an issue we don't talk about enough. Every year, peer-reviewed research journals publish hundreds of thousands of scientific papers. But every year, several hundred of those are retracted — essentially, unpublished. There's a number of reasons retraction happens. Sometimes, the researchers (or another group of scientists) will notice honest mistakes. Sometimes, other people will [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/NRrDApo13kM/fraud-failure-and-fubar-in-s.html
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