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Fiddling with the Data: Scientific Integrity is Alive and Well, Despite What you may Have Heard
This picture was taken in my laboratory, and the experiment here is exploring which isolates of a pathogenic microbe called Mycoplasma gallisepticum make the strongest biofilm (as seen by purple staining). As you can clearly see, there is no stastically significant difference between any of these strains. Mycoplasma gallisepticum Biofilms (Image: M. May/K. Perez) Wait, WHAT??, you may be thinking. "Strain B" is MUCH darker than "Strain A"! You cannot tell me that they are
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