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Vashta Nerada

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4. I got the impression he fabricated the results just to get more grant money.

Reply to longship (Reply #1)

Sat Dec 28, 2013, 09:26 PM

Dec 2013

You're absolutely right. Science has a way to see if a researcher is lying or not about his/her results and I'm glad the scientific community became suspicious when they couldn't replicate the results.

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Thank goodness that science has the checks and balances to weed out these people. longship Dec 2013 #1

I got the impression he fabricated the results just to get more grant money. Vashta Nerada Dec 2013 #4

Sad Aerows Dec 2013 #2

Something will probably come up. DeSwiss Dec 2013 #3

OMG... Aerows Dec 2013 #5