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If it is published in the scientific literature, can you trust it? All too often, that question gets lost, sidetracked or buried.
If it is published in the scientific literature, can you trust it? All too often, that question gets lost, sidetracked or buried.
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Well, for starters, it's actually pretty easy to.
The number of retracted scientific papers has increased sharply over the past decade, while the time from publication to…