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0 pointsQem2y ago0 comments

It's not cynism. The disagreement about authorship apparently was motivated by someone in the original team being pushed aside to open a slot for the well connected "10k citations" guy. It's a old problem academia still fails to address. See:

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/jou...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-colonial_science

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Facemelters2y ago

No one knows if this version of events is true

QemOP2y ago

Indeed. But if further investigation reveals the situation to be what it appears to be, this would follow a long list of similar occurrences, the likes of César Lattes and Jocelyn Bell.

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Facemelters2y ago

No one knows if this version of events is true

QemOP2y ago

Indeed. But if further investigation reveals the situation to be what it appears to be, this would follow a long list of similar occurrences, the likes of César Lattes and Jocelyn Bell.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse