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There is a good article on all this in the most recent edition of 
Scientific American. It shows how digital image detectives can detect 
some pretty subtle manipulations. They are mostly looking at press 
images, but many of the principles apply to microscopy and other 
lab-generated images. Well worth a read, even if it might take the 
sparkle from your eye!

IAN


On Sunday, June 22, 2008, at 10:27  PM, John Oreopoulos wrote:

> Search the CONFOCAL archive at
> http://listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu/cgi-bin/wa?S1=confocal
>
> I was a bit surprised at the statistics cited in this article:
>
> http://chronicle.com/free/2008/05/3028n.htm
>
> Does this mean that all journals will start hiring image manipulation 
> detectives someday? Could be an interesting career.
>
>
> John Oreopoulos, BSc,
> PhD Candidate
> University of Toronto
> Institute For Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering
> Centre For Studies in Molecular Imaging
>
> Tel: W:416-946-5022
>
>

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