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As of 2020 ten of Krishna Murthy's publications have been retracted, and two others have received an expression of concern. [139] Haruko Obokata (Japan) formerly of RIKEN and Harvard University, falsified data in the widely publicized STAP cell fraud. [140] As of 2021, Obokata has had four of her research publications retracted. [141]
He has been called "the biggest con man in academic science". [77] In 2020, Sapan Desai and his coauthors published two papers in the prestigious medical journals The Lancet and The New England Journal of Medicine, early in the COVID-19 pandemic. The papers were based on a very large dataset published by Surgisphere, a company owned by Desai ...
A subject of the Tuskegee syphilis experiment has his blood drawn, c. 1953.. Numerous experiments which were performed on human test subjects in the United States in the past are now considered to have been unethical, because they were performed without the knowledge or informed consent of the test subjects. [1]
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A recent study by the Pew Research Center found that public trust in science and other institutions has declined a bit since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Since the first award in 1901, conferment of the Nobel Prize has engendered criticism [1] and controversy. [2] After his death in 1896, the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel established that an annual prize be awarded for service to humanity in the fields of physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and peace.
Tyrannosaurus rex was thought to have increased in size by more than 700 kg a year, until Mhyrvold showed that this was a factor of 2 too large. In 4 of 12 papers he examined, the original data had been lost. In three, the statistics were correct, while three had serious errors that invalidated their conclusions.
There may be a psychological reason why some people aren’t just wrong in an argument — they’re confidently wrong, according to a study in the journal Plos One. ... Science & Tech. Shopping ...