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# Bad Science

Researcher arrested after faking data for a HIV vaccine

The scientist confessed to spiking samples of blood to make a HIV vaccine appear to have great promise.

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Jun 25th 2014, 4:00 PM

# oh happy day

Does today feel like the happiest day of the year to you?

A mathematical formula claims today should be the happiest day of 2011. That couldn’t be right, could it?

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Jun 17th 2011, 9:37 AM

# Bad Science

Astronomers dismiss suggestion that sun and moon caused Japan earthquake

Reports that scientists had established a link between the activities of the sun and moon with the today’s Pacific tsunami have been dismissed by Irish astronomers.

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Mar 11th 2011, 3:59 PM