• henfredemars@infosec.pub
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    5 months ago

    I published a paper where six other papers referenced what I covered as literally impossible and it often made me quite angry that nobody was looking into this because of that incorrect statement 20 years ago. To this day I remember that papers are written by humans and are not infallible.

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      5 months ago

      During one journal club-style group meeting, our PI was tearing into a paper and basically calling it bullshit. We had a highschool intern in the group, and he turned to me and said, “but it’s peer reviewed…how can it be wrong?”