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Why Fake Data When You Can Fake a Scientist?
Making up names and CVs is one of the latest tricks to game scientific metrics.
What Counts as Science?
The arXiv preprint service is trying to answer an age-old question.
The Lessons of a Ghost Planet
Vulcan shows us science beyond the scientific method.
Why Is Biomedical Research So Conservative?
Funding, incentives, and skepticism of theory make some scientists play it safe.
Are There Barbarians at the Gates of Science?
The increasingly complex border between science and society is changing both.
Why Physics Is Not a Discipline
Physics is not just what happens in the Department of Physics.
Why Do Taxonomists Write the Meanest Obituaries?
The open nature of the science of classification virtually guarantees fights.
Ingenious: Hope Jahren
Meet the Lab Girl.
How the Biggest Fabricator in Science Got Caught
Yoshitaka Fujii falsified 183 papers before statistics exposed him.
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