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
Semantic Scholar (metadata): 10.1126/science.314.5807.1856
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Summary

  1. Chang was under intense pressure to publish.
  2. Chang had published good results on X-ray crystalography.
  3. Locher else casts doubt on one of them.
  4. Chang finds bug in the code used in that and other publications.
  5. Chang has to retract several publications.