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Sunday, June 01, 2008

Can't trust science.

Well, scientists, actually. No such thing as impartial science. Cause there's people involved. Always the people thing, screwing up the program.

Bioscientists photoshop their cultures to fake results - Boing Boing:
"And the level of tampering they find is alarming. 'The magnitude of the fraud is phenomenal,' says Hany Farid, a computer-science professor at Dartmouth College who has been working with journal editors to help them detect image manipulation. Doctored images are troubling because they can mislead scientists and even derail a search for the causes and cures of disease."

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