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Dealing with scientific fraud: a proposal

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2007

Seth Roberts
Seth Roberts
Affiliation:
Department of PsychologyUniversity of CaliforniaBerkeley CA 94720, USA Email: twoutopias@gmail.com
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Public Health Nutrition , Volume 9 , Issue 5 , August 2006 , pp. 664 - 665
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