Science and the Public

What review catches, how fraud is found, and how to read a consensus

The referees · the image sleuths · a 1969 memorandum · 3 chapters · 8 min read

What review catches, how fraud is found, and how to read a consensus.

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Getting Out

01What Review Actually CatchesOn what two or three readers can and cannot do.
02How Fabrication Gets FoundOn how invented data is actually caught, and the larger problem beneath it.
03How to Read a ConsensusOn what a consensus is evidence of, and the industry built on obscuring it.