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25 / April / 2025 Reproducibility crisis hits biomedicine Seven in every ten biomedical scientists have been unable to reproduce scientific experiments, warns international study involving researchers from 80 countries Por Gilberto Stam
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01 / November / 2024 Scientific truth: The journey to consensus Explaining that scientific facts do not “fall from the sky,” but are the result of a complex process of constructing knowledge, must be part of the fight against denialism, say researchers Por Rodrigo de Oliveira Andrade
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