"Researchers often use Photoshop to clean up the images they produce in the laboratory. If the experiment didn't go quite right, a bit of tampering can make a gel look like things did work."
For the lazy, here's a direct link to the Houston Chronicle article mentioned in the BoingBoing post.
This sounds like it's becoming a very serious problem, and it's only going to get worse. We are rapidly leaving the era in which a photograph could be considered proof of anything, and the adjustment period is going to be chaotic.
This sounds like it's becoming a very serious problem, and it's only going to get worse. We are rapidly leaving the era in which a photograph could be considered proof of anything, and the adjustment period is going to be chaotic.