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Re:Prominent Chinese crystallographer faked data for years. by hga on Wednesday December 23, 2009 @06:51PM (#1013098)
We disagree on how huge of a setback it is, "how significant this is in the scheme of things" as the original question put it.

A setback, yes. Huge for those who wasted their time? Maybe.

But compare it to, say, Lysenkoism. That was a huge setback for Soviet biology.

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Re:Prominent Chinese crystallographer faked data for years. by carbocation on Wednesday December 23, 2009 @09:24PM (#1013266)
That's like saying a supernova is not significant because it's not the Big Bang.
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