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Randall Munroe: XKCD Cartoonist, Author, & Physicist

Behind The Tech with Kevin Scott

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Is Your Science Collaborative?

Sally Kohn: One of my theories about why science ultimately or like scientific ideas like have to, good ones have to work is because often you're composing them together. And so someone publishes something that's faulty and then someone else uses it in a thing that they in good faith are trying to go solve. They very quickly may discover that everything sort of breaks because the thing they're relying on was broken. She says there isn't necessarily an incentive to double check your research before using it.Kohn: The recent papers on the amyloid hypothesis and Alzheimer's really has been taking a lot of hits.

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