Let's say I published g00t more than 5 years ago. Today VLRM asks me via email for the data set. Guy wants to replicate my results. Says he cannot reproduce my results from the original sources I have named. What I do?
VLRM asks me for data set: Da fuq I do?
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Tell him you had a computer virus that wiped out the dataset. Say that it was the virus that Rogoff and Reinhart forgot to get on their computer a few weeks ago.
Honestly, did you make up the results? This is an anonymous forum so you have all the freedom in the world to say if you did that.
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Huddle in the corner of your office wrapped in a blanket and some hot coco from the machine down the hall and wait for the inevitable.
Let's say I published g00t more than 5 years ago. Today VLRM asks me via email for the data set. Guy wants to replicate my results. Says he cannot reproduce my results from the original sources I have named. What I do?
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And this is why people scoff when we call our work "science". I hope you are trolling because this looks horrible for the profession.
My suggestion, come clean. Tell the journal editor and kid the truth. It doesn't have to be the full truth just something to the extent of "I dun goofed". The fact that you have an RA tells me you have sufficient clout to just own up to your mistake without suffering serious repercussions.
Hell, why not co-author a paper that trashes your old one with the VLRM?