Re: Bug In Python Script May Have Affected Hundreds Of Studies

On Wed, 16 Oct 2019 11:42:59 +1300, Peter Reutemann wrote:

> The upside: the script was made available with the study.
> Lots of studies cannot be replicated due to data and/or
> scripts/programs not being made available as well. Hence the "open
> science" movement (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_science).

Yup. It seems so obvious to me (and to lots of others) that when you
publish the results of scientific research, you have to make available
notes, raw data and other stuff that would be necessary for others to
replicate your results. This would have to include any essential
processing software. Otherwise how can we trust them?

Here <https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/15/bug_python_scripts/> is
a further article, which includes a copy of the buggy function. How
depressing is it that all it does is collect the items of a list,
only to append them to another list ...
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