"Clive George" wrote in message
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On 01/09/2014 00:10, Timothy Murphy wrote:
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_.

There probably is,

I doubt it.

but that'll be in areas where there's real money at stake for the people
funding the science, ie pharma.

Don't buy that either given how easy it is to catch real
fraud in that area.

Even just fraud that involves not revealing significant
medical downsides with a new drug will be found out
once it gets used widely.

Corse you can certainly claim that claims that its
much better than what is currently available is
significant fraud when it isnt actually significantly better.