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Dealing with scientific fraud: a proposal

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2007

Seth Roberts
Affiliation:
Department of PsychologyUniversity of CaliforniaBerkeley CA 94720, USA Email: [email protected]
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Abstract

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