A Scientist's Nightmare: Software Problem Leads to Five Retractions
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Citation: Greg Miller (2006/12/22) A Scientist's Nightmare: Software Problem Leads to Five Retractions. Science (RSS)
DOI (original publisher): 10.1126/science.314.5807.1856
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Summary
- Chang was under intense pressure to publish.
- Chang had published good results on X-ray crystalography.
- Locher else casts doubt on one of them.
- Chang finds bug in the code used in that and other publications.
- Chang has to retract several publications.