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Matt Ridley

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Biologist, columnist | Author of Red Queen, Genome, Rational Optimist, the Evolution of Everything, How Innovation Works, Viral and Birds, Sex and Beauty.
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An amateur sleuth is singlehandedly demolishing dangerous scientific groupthink

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By Matt Ridley
| Aol
Sholto David has made millions from exposing scientific scandals - Matt Writtle Sholto David is a Newcastle University graduate who has made a name for himself as a "scientific sleuth". Last year, he brought a case against the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston that resulted in a $15m (£11m) settlement of fraud allegations with the US department of justice. Now he has found an astonishingly amateurish error in cancer studies across the world.
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An amateur sleuth is singlehandedly demolishing dangerous scientific groupthink

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By Matt Ridley
| AOL UK
Sholto David is a Newcastle University graduate who has made a name for himself as a "scientific sleuth". Last year, he brought a case against the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston that resulted in a $15m (£11m) settlement of fraud allegations with the US department of justice. Now he has found an astonishingly amateurish error in cancer studies across the world. The implications for public trust in science of this and other scandals are increasingly alarming.
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An amateur sleuth is singlehandedly demolishing dangerous scientific groupthink

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By Matt Ridley
| Yahoo
Sholto David is a Newcastle University graduate who has made a name for himself as a "scientific sleuth". Last year, he brought a case against the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston that resulted in a $15m (£11m) settlement of fraud allegations with the US department of justice. Now he has found an astonishingly amateurish error in cancer studies across the world. The implications for public trust in science of this and other scandals are increasingly alarming.
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