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Radiation Protection Dosimetry 2006 118(3):231-232; doi:10.1093/rpd/ncl054
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Editorial

The Dark Side of Scientific Research

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The popular "Star Wars" movies made famous the notion of going over to the dark side, which was a reference to a good person becoming evil. Of course, fictional motion pictures tend to over-dramatise concepts such as good and evil. In the real world, and even in our scientific world, the contrasts are usually not so stark. People make mistakes, and scientists certainly make errors of varying magnitudes. In general, this is to be expected, and in fact the subject of uncertainty in measurement has been discussed in several recent editorials and is covered in a number of reports . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Joseph C. McDonald

Editor-in-Chief


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