[luddaite]

This is giving me flashbacks to the whole STAP cells fiasco of a few years ago where a research group in Japan published a "simple" way to generate pluripotent stem cells. Everyone and their mother tried to replicate the result and eventually the paper was shown to be fraudulent. On the bright side, the larger scientific community acted as a backstop to the journal/peer-review system. On the other hand, the amount of resources expended to nullify this claim was probably enormous and is hard to quantify. Putting out bad data not only poisons the well, it also chews up lots of productivity cycles of everyone in the field.

[T-A]

It's giving me flashbacks to

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schön_scandal

[amai]

You are so right. It feels like a dejavu:

"Lydia Sohn, then of Princeton University, noticed that two experiments carried out at very different temperatures had identical noise.[3] When the editors of Nature pointed this out to Schön, he claimed to have accidentally submitted the same graph twice."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sch%C3%B6n_scandal#Allegations...