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Nature 421, 878 (27 February 2003) | doi:10.1038/421878a
Physicists fail to find saving grace for falsified research
Philip Ball
In the furore that followed last year's revelation that Jan Hendrik Schön had fabricated data in a string of high-profile papers, one question remained unanswered: was there a nugget of truth in any of his reported findings? Two teams have now attempted to replicate some of Schön's key results, and find that little of use can be salvaged from them.
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