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Scientific datasets are riddled with copy-paste errors

Hacker News Top · 2026-04-19 Cached

A software tool designed to detect data fabrication has uncovered copy-paste errors in scientific datasets across open-access repositories, including a highly-cited Parkinson's Disease study in Cell (2016) that has been publicly available for over 8 years without detection.

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