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by gfrff 2243 days ago
She said this never happens. This happened all the time. It's just that she was the first scientist to take the honest route and do a retraction rather than letting it slip. I'm impressed with her integrity, but surprised by her naivete.
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She is not the first scientist to fess to a mistake. Heck, one of my colleagues went through the same thing last year, and he also did the right thing, and other scientists also appreciated his open honesty about the matter, even though his mistake meant the retraction of a high impact article.