Tim Streater wrote:

No dear boy you are missing the point. Which is that the value that
Millikan got was incorrect. Not by much, but noticeable.

Sigh.
You cannot give the _correct_ value of the mass of the electron.
It is a real number, so every estimate is incorrect.
Millikan's was the best estimate at the time.

In any case this was over a century ago.
The claim was that there is widespread scientific fraud _today_.

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Timothy Murphy
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland