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It’s not a good look for science when the most hyped, heavily marketed, and supposedly transformative discoveries are later discredited. Among the more spectacular cases were claims that a team of ...

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Eric Isaacs has spent his career moving seamlessly between discovery and leadership, guided by the belief that science ...