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60 Minutes: Cancer Science Fraud at Duke

60 Minutes aired a piece last night about scientific fraud at Duke University, where data was fabricated in order to support alleged discoveries in individualized cancer therapies.  As a result of these investigations, a number of previously published scientific articles have been retracted. Less than a week ago, I highlighted an infographic from Jen Rhee

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Introducing Wolfram|Alpha Pro

Stephen Wolfram is doing it again.  I’m a big fan of Wolfram (you can read some of my other posts here, here, and here…), and am always intrigued by what he comes up with.  A couple of days ago, Wolfram launched his latest contribution to data science and computational understanding – Wolfram|Alpha Pro.  Here’s an

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Bad Science

Jen Rhee has done some great homework on bad science and put them into a cool infographic that’s worth looking at.  Here are some of the highlights from her research into bad science: 1 in 3 scientists admit to using questionable research practices 1 in 50 admits falsifying or fabricating data outright Among biomedical researcher

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