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Actually, it smacks of misdirection to me. He portrays the matter as one of a mistaken theory or hypothesis that was later invalidated (how science works), whic

by bhk 4y ago

Actually, it smacks of misdirection to me. He portrays the matter as one of a mistaken theory or hypothesis that was later invalidated (how science works), which deflects from the key allegation of experimental data being falsified or fabricated.

itronitron 4y ago
"I have never submitted a paper without firmly believing that the data were correct and accurately presented." which is another way of saying... "it's not a lie if you believe it" To give them the benefit of the doubt though, if they realized the data was wrong they should have requested a retraction. That they didn't after being requested to do so speaks a lot, to me at least.