http://www.sciencemag.org/content/343/6175/1065.full
Scandals in research always surprise me… It makes me sad that research, which I believe should be driven more so by the pursuit of knowledge and the betterment of human life, can be so easily corrupted by people’s jealousy. Data interpretation, inaccurate reporting, there are many things people can do to change their findings, which essentially leads to a setback in whatever field they are reporting it.
From our figure workshops, it was interesting reading over the old figures and legends and then comparing how people currently write and display their data. I cannot imagine typing everything on a typewriter, or drawing graphs without a graphing program, or even just doing all of these calculations by hand! Ah technology.
(side note: I believe Gurdon was Professor Webb’s mentor… please correct me if I’m wrong!)