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vxbush12/23/2009 9:22:55 am PST

re: #287 LudwigVanQuixote

I had a friend with a Ph.D. in evolutionary biology tell me that of the journals he read, he felt that as many as 1/3 might have serious problems with them that would be overturned later. That’s rare to see in mathematics. We have papers get overturned because counterexamples are finally shown to prove a paper wrong, but that doesn’t seem to happen as often in math as it does in other fields—if my friend’s estimate is right.