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To what extent is science a strong-link problem?
Here’s a fascinating and worrying news story in Science: a top US researcher apparently falsified a lot of images (at least) in papers that helped get experimental drugs on the market —…
Suddenly pneumaticity wasn’t some obscure bit of trivia, but the skeletal footprint of a bird-like respiratory system that was potentially a key adaptation for sauropods (Sander et al. 2011) and possibly for dinosaurs more generally (Schachner et al. 2009, 2011). Whatever convection cells push the good science toward the top would ideally work more like a cook pot on a rapid boil, and not like the imperceptible roiling of Earth’s mantle. Patterns and function of pneumaticity in the vertebrae, ribs, and ilium of a titanosaur (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of Texas, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 43:2.
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