RE: Peer reviewed study published in Science Journal turns out to be fraud.
May 23, 2015 at 12:36 pm
(This post was last modified: May 23, 2015 at 12:39 pm by YGninja.)
(May 23, 2015 at 12:34 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: Pure chance? Did you even read the article you buffoon?
A separate group tried unsuccessfully to replicate the results. They then asked for the raw data from the original study, which didn't exist. That's exactly how it's supposed to work. If you do a study with fantastic (and I'm not using that term colloquially) results, people are going to look at it closely and try to disprove or confirm the experiment.
It is pure chance that a separate group tried to replicate the results. The results and the conclusion taken from those results should have been exposed during peer-review. Peer reviews are meant to anaylse the veracity of the source data. Once a paper has passed peer-review, it is widely acknowledged to be reliable, with no further investigation necessary.