This would be a great tool for other teams to learn new/different methodologies. I guess the reason is competition.

But reproducing studies could be live-streamed without a problem.

One of the things that surprised me was that she was identifying manipulated and duplicated images using her own eyes.

This could be done via software, and might catch more papers than the ~6k out of 100k that she did.

In the software world, there are tools for this, "software composition analysis". I worked at a company that got busted for violating GPL, and as part of settling the suit, all software had to be run through BlackDuck and all warning/issues found by the tool had to be resolved before the software could be released. (NOTE: the software that violated GPL was from an acquisition)

For these scientific papers, at a minimum truth==reproducibility.

For humanities and social sciences, it could mean consensus, but in hard science it is different. You are doing experiments that produce data. If someone else repeats the experiment, they should get the same data.

In this case, no one could reproduce the results of the papers in question.

I wonder how widespread this has become. How many scientists, driven to publish, know that it is too expensive to reproduce their experiment?

Ya, noticed that too. other interesting observations: * 48 recruiters & 28 "People" stuff * boat load of Project Managers * lots UX and Designer types

I had a Professor in college who refused to meet with me behind a a close door, and we were both male. He kindly explained that he picked this up from a former professor of his. He wanted zero possibility of a student accusing him of sexual misconduct. At the time I thought it was a bit strange, but I agreed and left the door open. 20 years later, it doesn't sound so strange anymore.

Everyone knows you can’t sexually assault someone if the door is open good rule of thumb though

> Everyone knows you can’t sexually assault someone if the door is open good rule of thumb though

It means that it's far less likely that you could do so unobserved, which makes it harder to explain away the lack of observations for a false claim.

Also, it sends a message that might be a deterrent to a false claim.

In the end, no amount of evidence will save you when they have it out for you because you're a man. There is the famous case of the German train conductor Ralf Witte and his friend, who were both falsely accused of rape by the friend's daughter. They were falsely imprisoned for a combined 10 years before the ridiculous verdict was overturned, even though the daughter was a known liar, frequently submitted contradicting testimony and they had alibi for several of the dates where the supposed rape took place. Among other things, the daughter claimed that Mr. Witte took her virginity, then later claimed that she had been enslaved in a human trafficking ring years earlier, directly contradicting her earlier statements. Any evidence not fitting the story that the judge and DA wanted to hear were simply explained away as the victim "misremembering".

"Han Solo shot first." ... Sorry, I had to do it.

Maybe he'll make the pronunciation of "Han" consistent someday.

How you treat the "other" is the measure of a low trust society. Murder is wrong and not tolerated within the clan, but violence towards the "other" is ignored and in some cases encouraged. Yes, there are hate crimes in America but they make the news and promoted to the FBI. This helps build trust.

Don't the Palestinians think the same thing, that only Palestinians should have governing power over all land west of the jordan river?

I'm sure many want the land that their families lost long ago when Israel was established and plenty of Palestinians are enraged enough by the ongoing human rights abuses that they suffer that they'll curse the Israeli state. Some will even say some pretty radical shit about it, probably similar to what Ukrainians might say of the invading Russians, or even what some Irish said of the Brits back during their independence struggle.

However if you were to right now offer the people of Palestine a guaranteed peace with a two-state solution based on the Oslo accords they would overwhelmingly vote to accept it. I don't think you could say the same of anyone who describes themselves as a Zionist. Though I don't know how widespread that belief is among the Israeli population, it's entirely likely a similar majority in Israel would be satisfied with such a solution.

Consider making every criminal complaint against a police officer a federal case to be investigated by the FBI. Take it out of state and local hands.

In my limited experience, Germans are more sensitive to personal privacy than other Europeans, even the rest of the world. To non-Germans they might seem paranoid. Maybe we can all learn from their historical mistake.

The problem I see with the DIY-attitude is that security is easy to get wrong and is moving target. The other opinion here is "keep it in the country". If someone really wants your data, the locale won't save you. And yet, if there is a breach, I could see an foreign company like AWS trying to hush it, where a German company would make a bigger fuss (diplomatic issue).

Hmm, mumble mumble mirrored switch port in the exchange mumble mumble mumble...