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eppur_se_muova

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5. Oh, she just misunderstood the meaning of "U Conn".
Fri Jul 10, 2026, 01:12 AM
8 hrs ago

Seriously, this is hard to believe. Experiments might be hard to reproduce, but DFT calculations could be checked by researchers everywhere. How long did she expect this to evade detection ?

Who am I kidding ? Having read "Betrayers of the Truth*", I'm no longer shocked to hear of scientific fraud in scientific publication. My former (late) thesis advisor had an entire article plagiarized, and published as a review article under another author's name -- with almost no changes in the text.




*It's hard to imagine how much revision would be needed to update this book for the era of the Internet and Fake Intelligence (FI).

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