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My Favorite Fraud

A paper I read more than 25 years ago taught me a lesson I'll never forget.

LAST WEEK I WAS AT A SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE IN WHICH CAREER development was a major topic. The audience included mostly scientists at an early stage in their careers, but also a few older scientists, like myself, who were to provide advice on how to manage laboratories and careers. Popular discussion topics included how to run lab meetings and deal with the egos of graduate students and postdocs. My particular advice included: Keep current with experimental technologies, and evaluate papers on a technical basis before trusting their conclusions.

I'm sure that this advice sounded to some like the musings of a ...

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