And the Beat Goes On...

"Scientists have been forced to withdraw a study on projected sea level rise due to global warming after finding mistakes that undermined the findings."

"It's one of those things that happens. People make mistakes and mistakes happen in science." He said there were two separate technical mistakes in the paper, which were pointed out by other scientists after it was published. A formal retraction was required, rather than a correction, because the errors undermined the study's conclusion. Retraction is a regular part of the publication process," said Mark Siddall, from the Earth Sciences Department at the University of Bristol, "Science is a complicated game..."

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