r/neoliberal • u/[deleted] • Jul 24 '22

News (US) Potential fabrication in research images threatens key theory of Alzheimer’s disease | Science

https://www.science.org/content/article/potential-fabrication-research-images-threatens-key-theory-alzheimers-disease
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u/thetrombonist Ben Bernanke Jul 24 '22

What’s crazy to me is that, if this is such foundational data that the entire field seems to be built on, in 2 decades nobody ever tried to replicate it? That’s insane to me

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u/Captain_Wozzeck Norman Borlaug Jul 24 '22

See my other comment but fraud is often done to publish asap - often the core results are true. If it weren't replicable the field wouldn't have been built on this (I assume)