Monday, December 29, 2014

One of the biggest science breakthroughs of 2014 never really happened

Vox reports One of the biggest science breakthroughs of 2014 never really happened "Although it's never encouraging to see scientific misconduct, the speed with which this was caught shows how researchers are now using social media to unearth shoddy science. For example, PubPeer, which basically hosts comments sections for papers, played a huge role in picking these papers apart, as did Knoepfler's blog."

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