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Count on Pixar to make a small animated short about how they almost lost Toy Story 2 while it was in production. Watch the video to see how three characters punched into a computer — only thre…
"Smeesters could not produce the raw data behind the findings, and told the committee that he cherry-picked the data to produce a statistically significant result."
Grad student John Boldt had his laptop (which held his thesis) stolen. But he backed everything up, so no big deal, right? Well: His backup hard drive was stolen too, and now he may have to drop out.
An Apple Mac laptop containing a university dissertation was stolen from a car at Foxley Wood at the weekend.
Don't put sensitive data on BitTorrent! Geez, isn't that freakin' obvious? Apparently not.
Scientists warn against “unnecessary intrusions that stifle research.”
Yesterday, my HeritageCrowd project website was annihilated. Gone. Kaput. Destroyed. Joined the choir. It is a dead parrot. This is what I think happened, what I now know and need to learn, and wha…
What happens when you don't negotiate data-ownership issues up front.
What lies untapped beneath the surface of published clinical trial analyses could rock the world of independent review.
When the Deepwater Horizon oil well exploded two years ago in the Gulf of Mexico, many academic scientists stepped outside of the Ivory Tower to study what was an unprecedented -- and unintended -- environmental experiment. They succeeded in gathering mountains of data, learning all sorts of new things, and advancing science. But they also failed. Chemist Christopher Reddy explains how he, and other scientists, could have done better during the crisis and how government, industry and other first responders could have better cooperated with scientists.
Missing source code can allow bad science to slip through the cracks and means extra headaches for scientists who want to closely follow up on new studies or check for errors
“What we’re really looking for is an [information technology] solution that will allow one to determine that the data that are being used to eventually lead to clinical trials are in fact the data obtained at the time of collection and that there haven’t been changes that people are not aware of,” she said.
We have learned that a widely published Japanese anesthesiologist is under investigation by his university over concerns that he engaged in repeated fraud for decades that has tainted roughly 180 a…
The embedded video is a WONDERFUL look into skewed and missing clinical-trial data and why it matters.
An unencrypted laptop containing control codes for the International Space …