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When discovering your own mistake could topple a field

I found an error in my most cited paper from ten years ago and correcting it would invalidate research that hundreds of other scientists have built on.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Scientific integrity sometimes requires destroying the foundations others have built on your work.

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