June 6, 2008
Journals Find Many Images in Research Are Faked
New software reveals a troubling wave of fraud
A common type of image tampering
found by Hany Farid, of Dartmouth College, is the use of Photoshop
to delete portions of a cell-culture image and thereby change
research results. Mr. Farid created a manipulated image (far left)
to
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