Alzheimer's study retracted
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This is a big deal.
Researchers plan to retract landmark Alzheimer’s paper containing doctored images
Senior author acknowledges manipulated figures in study tying a form of amyloid protein to memory impairment
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I hate, hate, hate it when academics and/or researchers in any field do this kind of crap. It's unethical and just plain wrong. But it's doubly evil when it's medical research

It is nearly criminal
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Also speaks to lack of efforts/funds to reproduce whatever’s reported in new literature.
People who work to reproduce experiments to verify key results should get more respect and more funding.
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