Do You See Any Validity in the Two Thousand Six Paper?

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Karnash says she doesn't have access to the original blot images, but she personally observed a lot of them as they were hot off the presses or sort of developing. She also maintains that the science at the core of the paper is still valid. The editing of the images was in regions of the blot that was unrelated to the data, related to the experiment itself.

This past July, a bombshell report in Science magazine suggested that a key Alzheimer’s study might have contained manipulated evidence. What does this mean for over a decade's worth of research? And where does the field go from here?

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