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Novelty in science – real necessity or distracting obsession?

  • Written by Jalees Rehman, Associate Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology, University of Illinois at Chicago
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In a recent survey of over 1,500 scientists, more than 70 percent of them reported having been unable to reproduce other scientists’ findings at least once. Roughly half of the surveyed scientists ran into problems trying to reproduce their own results. No...

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