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mike_c

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3. wow!

Reply to NNadir (Original post)

Thu Nov 13, 2025, 12:12 PM

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I used to discuss membership in a "culture of honesty" with my first year biology students. This is the sort of example I gave them, formerly respected scientists disgraced and their careers destroyed. Notwithstanding a great new illustration of the consequences for dishonesty, I'm awfully glad I'm retired now.

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A whopper of a retraction. [View all] NNadir Wednesday OP

I think I see a similarity to "Doctor" Oz there with a dash of rfk.jr. erronis Wednesday #1

Good point. NNadir Wednesday #2

wow! mike_c Thursday #3

You may enjoy going to the website "retraction watch" linked in the OP. NNadir Thursday #4