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A meeting intended to sustain the fight against misconduct in science should look for ways of making academic institutions more responsible and for weakening the links between personal success and publication.
Ambitions to detect meaningful signals in the presence of noise go back to the early telegraphs of the nineteenth century, but are now embodied in the search for proofs of what is called stochastic resonance.