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Researchers plan to retract landmark Alzheimer’s paper containing doctored images | Science (www.science.org)
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[–] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Reading the quotes from Ashe reminds me of some of the cops who plant evidence at crime scenes: they’re convinced they’ve already got the right suspect, and manufacturing evidence is just a convenient shortcut for persuading everyone else of their version of the truth.