My friend Miranda had an interesting post about a high profile case of scientific misconduct at my old alma mater Mizzou. A paper published in Science by a team in Mike Roberts’ lab came under investigation. All the media commentary at the time was clear that Roberts himself was not under suspicion, and the data manipulation was later narrowed down to a creative graduate student who no longer attends the University of Missouri.

Miranda had attended a speech that Roberts gave last week on the findings of the investigation, and according to Miranda he also pointed out that the paper was cited after the investigation was initiated and after the investigation concluded that the data was manipulated. Miranda has some interesting thoughts on why that is in the fourth paragraph of her random musings from Friday last week.