It last made its appearance here: http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1001745
4th paragraph down, starting with "We believe"... Greg probably has a list in some Google Doc that he can no longer find. If I can find the time, maybe I'll write up a quick blog post asking for pointers; it'd be nice to have some "broken compute" flypaper out there to collect such cases. cheers, --titus On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 09:47:18AM -0500, Joshua Ryan Smith Ph.D. 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 -- C. Titus Brown, [email protected] _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org
