March 19, 1999
Challenging an Eminent Biologist's Research
Some scientists say journals have been reluctant to publish papers on their unsuccessful efforts to replicate a startling finding
A dispute among biologists regarding the seemingly arcane issue of how calcium gets into heart cells illustrates the difficulty that researchers face in verifying one another's work -- and in publishing papers that describe discrepancies in accepted discoveries.
At least a half-dozen groups of
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