Re: An alarming amount of (statistical) image manipulation

Posted by Michael Cammer on Jul 05, 2008; 11:20pm
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We sometimes have the problem, especially with data involving small
particles moving in cells, that data that are evident in raw data and
really clear in deconvolved and contrast enhanced images simply disappear
completely in compressed movies or figures that have to be squeezed into a
single page.  This is an example where journals simply make it impossible
to adequately show data.


> I think it is unreasonable not to give electronic access to images
> that are published in
> journal articles. The images in PDF files are ususally JPEG or similar
> compressed,
> and thus corrupted badly, and it is much better to be able to see the
> uncorrupted original images.

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