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The band of debunkers busting bad scientists

16 mins | Sep 30, 2023
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Stanford’s president and a high-profile physicist are among those taken down by a growing wave of volunteers exposing incorrect research papers. Nidhi Subbaraman explores the story of a trio of data detectives who have gained academic renown for debunking published studies built on faulty or fraudulent data. Read by Sharon McCune.

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