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A. Klarke Heinecke's avatar

My researcher spouse says altering images is a huge problem in scientific publications.

I'm a former award-winning high-end digital retoucher. I offer my services in providing a professional opinion on whether flattened image files have been altered. I could probably convincingly alter one myself, but most scientists are not that good at retouching. I could see a lot of giveaways in the Stanford Dailey cited images, beyond duplication.

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Eric Rasmusen's avatar

The Lee Jussim metaphor actually isn't very good. It is not at all clear that horses are better than mules for plowing. I googled "plowing with horses versus mules" to make sure, and I see that experts would say it is unclear. Horses are fancier, but if your metaphor is "using a thoroughbred for plowing", it works both because that kind of horse is more expensive and because it's worse for plowing.

Of course, saying that to denigrate mules is racist is even crazier. Clearly nobody concerned knows anything about livestock.

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