500,000 scientific papers over 60 years could be based on erroneous data

[Pickman's model]

oops

 

[pug]

I've only just heard about this and watched this documentary the other night.

 

[2hats]

Side note: In a not dissimilar vein see also the (not quite so serious) ~2 decade old problem with M$ Excel mangling gene names across genomic literature.