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How to Judge Flawed Science

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2011

Ivan K. Schuller  and
Yvan Bruynseraede

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Material Matters
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MRS Bulletin , Volume 30 , Issue 2 , February 2005 , pp. 75 - 76
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2005

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