Stanford researchers uncover patterns in how scientists lie about their data

 

When scientists falsify data, they try to cover it up by writing differently in their published works. A pair of Stanford researchers have devised a way of identifying these written clues.

BY BJORN CAREY

Blind analysis: Hide results to seek the truth

Nature 526, 187–189 (08 October 2015)

More fields should, like particle physics, adopt blind analysis to thwart bias, urge Robert MacCoun and Saul Perlmutter.

 

 

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