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8 Even geniuses succumb to temptation. Researchers have found that Isaac Newton fudged numbers in his Principia, generally considered the greatest physics text ever written.
9 Other legends who seem to have altered data: Freud, Darwin, and Pasteur.
10 And Austrian monk Gregor Mendel’s famous pea-breeding experiments—the foundation of modern ideas of heredity—are suspiciously good, matching his theory of genetic inheritance a little too well.
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"10 And Austrian monk Gregor Mendel’s famous pea-breeding experiments—the foundation of modern ideas of heredity—are suspiciously good, matching his theory of genetic inheritance a little too well."
I was taught this in Genetics Class 40+ years ago. People during his time had no comprehension of statistics. His predicting a spread like 75/25, and getting 77/23, would not be understood. So he made the spreads come out exactly.
In Genetics lab, we all rubbed out a few fruit flies.
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