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One could take this line of thinking arbitrarily far. For example - how are you supposed to trust that authors of any paper, anywhere, always had authenticated,
by galacticaactual 6y ago
One could take this line of thinking arbitrarily far. For example - how are you supposed to trust that authors of any paper, anywhere, always had authenticated, authorized, and controlled access to their integrity-checked data at all times during the entire span of their research?
- spekcular 6y agoThe people I know who work with medical data do indeed follow protocols like this, involving for example hardware security tokens and encrypted, physically secured private servers. Though, I believe this is more to protect patient privacy than the data itself. More generally, I'm happy to presume (as long as the data is password-protected, say) that scientific data that hasn't obviously been vandalized is trustworthy. However, in this case we have positive evidence of tampering, and therefore a good reason to be skeptical.
- londons_explore 6y agoI clearly know different people... The people I know have all their important data in "Copy of Copy of Copy of Datav2 - FINAL.xlsx" saved in an email from a PhD student.