Science is competitive, funding is hard to get and tenure harder, and so even an honest researcher may wind up stretching the data to fit a publishable conclusion.
But it also keeps Mr. Bush exposed to the election-year charge that his White House politicized the work of the intelligence agencies, stretching the data to justify its decision to topple Saddam Hussein and perhaps paying insufficient attention to other threats.
We think it is stretching the data too much to use deposited particle mass (actually 5.9 8.99 higher in the Belgian study) for the analysis, because the long-term epidemiological studies we used are based on concentrations measured in outdoor air.
The respiration belt contained a piezoelectric sensor responsive to stretch and the data were sampled at 32 Hz.
Standardized data exchange formats such as PSI-MI [ 1] and BioPAX [ 2] have facilitated communication of large amounts of data, stretching the reach of genome- and proteome-wide interaction data in biological research.
Kiehl says he was careful not to stretch beyond what the data show.
People are as much a product of their environment as they are of their genes, say experts, and to suggest that genetics is the sole determinant that defines humans as individuals stretches the science beyond the current data.
In order to accommodate these newly discovered, important features, the hypothesis has been stretched to fit the data, however, given our knowledge of the data, it seems that the elastic limit of the original hypothesis has been passed.
