Scientific datasets are riddled with copy-paste errors
The above data comes from a landmark paper in Parkinson's Disease research, which provided the first-ever evidence that the disease originates in the gut rather than the brain. The paper received media coverage from major outlets and has amassed over 3000 citations from other scientific papers. But the underlying data contains sequences of duplicated values that should belong to completely different individual mice. The dataset has been publicly available on Dryad - an open-access repository whe...
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