Ditto about the interest on this list of cases. I'll add that besides a workflow system which would have helped (but not necessarily panacea, errors could be made there too), an open data reproducible paper would have helped even more: with all those skeptics, someone would have tried to re-run the analysis seeking for errors, and probably found it much sooner.
Cheers Davide On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 7:47 AM, Joshua Ryan Smith Ph.D. <[email protected]> wrote: > Titus and Greg, > Do you have a list of these cases on the web, or is this an informal thing > between you two? I'd be interested in seeing the list. > > Best, > Joshua > > >> On Jan 26, 2016, at 09:36, C. Titus Brown <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> for many years, Greg and I and others have been collecting "mea culpas" >> on research failures due to computational mistakes -- here's one that >> caught my eye the other day: >> >> http://www.unz.com/gnxp/there-was-no-vast-migration-of-eurasians-into-africa/ >> >> Reads to me like a workflow system would have helped here... >> >> This is pretty high profile; last paragraph: >> >> If something like this happened to me I’d probably literally throw up. This >> is horrible. But then again, this paper made it into Science, and Nature >> wrote >> articles like this: First ancient African genome reveals vast Eurasian >> migration. The error has to be corrected. >> >> cheers, >> --titus >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org
