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Re:Losing the Nobel Prize by tombone12 on Friday April 20, 2018 @06:56PM (#16888982)
It's not really mistakes that is the issue though, its more the fact that they got reeeeelly close to outright fabrication.

They had a very shaky estimate of an important background (the foreground) and instead of being cautious they put out a video like this as part of the announcement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlfIVEy_YOA

Re:Losing the Nobel Prize by PopePompous on Saturday April 21, 2018 @04:22AM (#16890492)
Perhaps the video should start at 01:59

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlfIVEy_YOA&t=1m59s