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b_b  ·  3626 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Top ten scientific retractions of 2014

As someone who works with stem cells from time to time, and who has colleagues who work with induced pluripotent cells, the most baffling thing about the STAP debacle to me was that anyone believed it in the first place. I took one look at that paper and rolled my eyes back when it was first published. The power of wishful thinking his strong.





Cumol  ·  3625 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The first time I heard about the STAP-paper I thought its crazy interesting and was all like "oh, sometimes its so simple.." and I believed it because well, it was published in Nature, they know what they are doing, right????

No.