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I know, Levitt and Donohue made the corrections, and then made even more "corrections", until they got back their original results (or as close as they could ge
by kylebrown 13y ago
I know, Levitt and Donohue made the corrections, and then made even more "corrections", until they got back their original results (or as close as they could get).
That's how it often goes when researches are accused of scientific misconduct (not to accuse LD, just noting). One famous example was Potti & Nevins at Duke. There were several back-and-forth "Comments" published to counter the questions Baggerly & Coombes were raising. PN repeatedly addressed the issues, each time releasing another "corrected" supplementary data set. Eventually the journals stopped publishing the BC critiques, PN seemingly convinced the reviewers that BC were just being pedantic about inconsequential statistical subtleties. It only came to a head because Duke was proceeding with human clinical trials based on that research.
To this day Potti still claims that he can address all the issues BN raised and correct them, and that his research was valid.