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Daily Archives: 9 May 2013
Science: better messy than messed up
I am fascinated by the psychology of scientific fraudsters. What drives these people? If you are smart enough to fake results, surely you have the ability to do research properly? You should also be clever enough to realise that one day … Continue reading
Posted in Diederk Stapel, fraud, Impact Factors, Norovirus, Scientific Life, Structural Biology
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In which things flow naturally forward
I’ve been pondering the impermanence of things lately. Maybe it all started with the departure of a well-liked clinical researcher from our lab, an OB/GYN with a sense of the absurd who never failed to make us laugh. Now when … Continue reading
Posted in careers, Nostalgia, staring into the abyss, The profession of science
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