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by tstactplsignore 491 days ago
Yeah, but that's actually not really true, the undergrad just reported in the campus newspaper what other scientists had found and reported in pubpeer: https://pubpeer.com/search?q=Tessier-Lavigne

Here's his original reporting where he describes this: https://www.editorandpublisher.com/stories/5-tips-for-using-...

Kudos to the kid for breaking the story before other media sources, but the actual scientific investigative work here was done by people with scientific training