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For 84 years, textbooks called Gregor Mendel's pea-plant data suspiciously perfect, after a statistician said the numbers were "too good to be true." A 2019 re-audit found the accusation itself was th...
A statistician's 1936 accusation of scientific fraud haunted Mendel's legacy for nearly a century—until modern re-analysis revealed the accuser's own math was wrong.