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Blackboard stores passwords IN THE CLEAR and emails them back to users IN THE CLEAR. W. T. FFFFFFFFFFFFFFF.
Badly-coded website foils preservation crawler.
Avant-garde art-creation location (including digital art) tries for recovery after Hurricane Sandy. Lots on obsolescing physical digital media e.g. CDs.
The "horror story" aspect is what the data were like BEFORE the 2012 harmonization/warehousing effort.
"Finally, we estimated that 29.8% to 32.9% of total resources are used to generate withheld datasets, implying that an important portion of research funding does not produce shared knowledge."
"John Bargh provided the data from his original study (Bargh & Shalev, 2012), but demanded that Donnellan and colleagues keep the data confidential and not share it or their re-analyses with anyone. That demand flies in the face of both APA and NIH ethical guidelines."
Research highlights differing methods of reporting central line infections in hospitals.
Followup on the Ahluwalia case. This is a case where smart lab precautions around data didn't stop the fraud, but made detecting it and assigning responsibility after the fact possible.
Two years after questions surfaced about work by former Harvard psychology professor Marc Hauser, an official government report is finally out. It’s not pretty. The findings by the Office of …
At least the authors did the right thing.
Even the FBI can't do data management right.
KEEP YOUR EVIDENCE for litigiable assertions, people. Throwing away the screenshots was just freakin' dumb.
I argue that requiring authors to post the raw data supporting their published results has, among many other benefits, that of making fraud much less likely to
Envy those who succeed by making up their data? Here's how you can, too!
Huge repositories of data collected by Internet companies are not accessible to scientists, leading some to complain that studies based on these data can’t be peer-reviewed.
Server crashes and takes every article with it (so could your world be wiped out too?)
Distorted claims about new medicines that exaggerate efficacy and minimize negative side effects seem to be on the increase. What can we do about it? One answer is transparency and openness.