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tzs on April 16, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Secret Computer Code Threatens Science

If the programs are actually important in the production or verification of the research, then don't we want peers who try to independently reproduce the experiment to also independently develop their own programs, so that their reproduction is truly independent?

mistercow on April 16, 2012 [–]

Possibly, but it would also be good if the source code were available for scrutiny by independent scientists.

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