The issue focused on research studies that study medical science literature to determine if scientists have scientific theories or experiments that they think were scientifically valid. Scientists said the researchers could also ask questions about whether researchers had committed academic fraud.

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Tristan Strickland, a researcher at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and one of the researchers involved in the study, told Nature last year that health care researchers use peer review as