They paint an image of a "sloppy" research culture in which some scientists don't understand the essentials of statistics, journal-selected article reviewers encourage researchers to leave unwelcome data out of their papers, and even the most prestigious journals print results that are obviously too good to be true.
Aside from Sec. Duncan's sudden aversion to unwelcome data, what is most disappointing here is the lost opportunity to find common ground.
As illustrated by the example shown here, however, the presence of DNA of unexpected origin in genomic sequences should not be regarded in principle as unwelcome information, but as additional data that can potentially improve the understanding of an organism's biology.
A true scientist, he argues, must be willing to accept "unwelcome and confounding data," to "make discoveries that shatter one's most deeply held beliefs". Maybe, he adds, "we discover that a man is not an expert on himself". Whether or not this is true, it's certain that a hologram can't cheat on you.
Ending a two-month stalemate, chemical company Engelhard of the United States has agreed to share nonpublic financial data with its unwelcome suitor, Germany's BASF.
Dark patterns used to obtain consent to collect users' personal data often combine unwelcome interruption with a built in escape route — offering an easy way to get rid of the dull looking menu getting in the way of what you're actually trying to do.
In The Mismeasure of Man, Gould revealed that they could only prove this by massaging the results, cooking the data, and eliminating the unwelcome findings.
The group's PR team went into overdrive again this week, after Airbnb admitted it had removed hundreds of listings from operators engaging in "unwelcome commercial activity" in New York before a data release.
It remains unlikely to be disproved completely in the near future, in part because proving a negative proposition is difficult to do and also because negative data can be seen as unwelcome news.
It has lost 6.3 percent of its value in April, unnerving global investors who suffered another unwelcome bit of news Friday from the United States, where data showed that the job market was still struggling.
Protecting against data breaches, hacks and cyber threats is an unwelcome but necessary reality for businesses today.
