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February 5, 2013 02:37 pm PST
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/4_HbmKfljlo/how-bad-research-gets-publishe.html
How bad research gets published (and promoted)
In 2010, a group of scientists claimed to have found bacteria that could build its DNA using arsenic, instead of the phosphorous used by the rest of Earth's life forms. Within days, the research behind "arsenic life" was under serious scrutiny and we now know that it was totally wrong. But the work was peer-reviewed. [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/4_HbmKfljlo/how-bad-research-gets-publishe.html
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