Honest Errors (誠信與科研態度)

mca

某人失去誠信兼人格，全港皆知。

在天文研究方面，有錯就要認要改，以下是去年發生過的例子

NASA's Chandra Finds Massive Black Holes Common in Early Universe
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/news/H-11-183.html

事後發現研究過程上有錯誤，研究小組很快就承認及修正了：

Correction:   After this paper (Treister et al. 2011) was published and publicized, a problem was discovered with the background subtraction used. Analysis by several groups, including the Treister et al. team, plus Willott (2011) and Cowie et al. (2012), shows that a significant detection of AGN (growing black holes) in the early universe can no longer be claimed.

Editor's Note:  Honest errors such as this are part of the scientific process, especially on the frontiers of discovery. To quote Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek, "If you don’t make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that’s a big mistake."