Researchers find bug in Python script may have affected hundreds of studies

[WorknMan]

I thought this was pertinent, due to Leo's recent video on corruption. Specifically, corruption in science. This article goes to show that sometimes, corruption isn't even caused by humans. (Well, not directly anyway.)

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/10/chemists-discover-cross-platform-python-scripts-not-so-cross-platform/
 

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In a paper published October 8, researchers at the University of Hawaii found that a programming error in a set of Python scripts commonly used for computational analysis of chemistry data returned varying results based on which operating system they were run on—throwing doubt on the results of more than 150 published chemistry studies.