5.6K members. The best post we have captured here reached 4.4K upvotes, which works out to 783 per 1,000 members.
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The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.
She left a paid job in 2019 to check scientific images full time, unpaid. Her work has led to over 900 retractions. She funds it with about $2,200 a …
In 1963, Maurice Hilleman's 5-year-old daughter woke him at 1 a.m. with mumps. He drove to his lab for swabs, took a throat sample, and spent four ye…
Nobody believed Barry Marshall that a germ caused stomach ulcers. So he mixed the bacteria into a cup of beef broth and drank it. Five days later he …
Barbara McClintock discovered that genes can move. The field reacted with hostility, so in 1953 she stopped publishing her data. She kept doing the r…
A 22-year-old student in Kazakhstan got tired of paywalls and coded a site herself. It now holds around 88 million papers. A 2021 study estimated it …
A Cambridge researcher spends about an hour a day reading Facebook groups where people openly sell authorship slots on scientific papers. His hobby h…
A young doctor defied orders and catheterized his own heart to prove it could be reached through a vein. Werner Forssmann documented it by X-ray and …
9 scientists starved to death inside the world's first seed bank rather than eat the collection they were guarding.
Over 1,000 fraudulent papers have been retracted because of one retired man in New Zealand working for free under a joke pseudonym. His reason: fake …
For two decades Stanley Prusiner was derided for claiming a protein with no genetic material could be infectious. He nearly left science to sell real…
Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.
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