Bioscientists Photoshop their cultures to fake results - Scifi-Meshes.com

**NewsHottie** · 05-30-2008, 05:40 PM

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Posted By: RobertoOrtiz
Post Time: 05-30-2008 at 02:41 PM
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"Researchers often use Photoshop to clean up the images they produce in the laboratory. If the experiment didn't go quite right, a bit of tampering can make a gel look like things did work. Editors at Science, Nature, and other journals are turning into detectives, using new tools to hunt for fraudulent images."
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NewsHottie I type really fast, among other things. Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 27,289 Blog Entries: 1	Bioscientists Photoshop their cultures to fake results Forum: CG News Posted By: RobertoOrtiz Post Time: 05-30-2008 at 02:41 PM Text: Quote: "Researchers often use Photoshop to clean up the images they produce in the laboratory. If the experiment didn't go quite right, a bit of tampering can make a gel look like things did work. Editors at Science, Nature, and other journals are turning into detectives, using new tools to hunt for fraudulent images." http://www.boingboing.net/2008/05/2...sts-photos.html More...
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