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Academic misconduct has been becoming a serious problem nowadays. Mistakes appeared in publications are also becoming more severe. The two are related because less and less attention is stressed on the rudiments of science in research community. The wrong method discussed in this work has been used by many researchers and the practice has lasted so long. There are so many works published with the method and such works still appear after we first pointed out the problem in November 2017. Conclusions cannot be sensible if the method used to obtain them is wrong. “Some scientists wondered how a questionable line of research persisted for so long." One way to find mistakes promptly before or after their publications is encouraging a keen interest among researchers in fundamental principles instead of relying heavily on equipment.
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An active attitude toward the rudiments of science is beneficial in solving scientific problems instead of only making attraction.
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This page is a summary of: Characterization microwave absorption from active carbon/BaSmxFe12−xO19/polypyrrole composites analyzed with a more rigorous method, Journal of Materials Science Materials in Electronics, December 2018, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/s10854-018-0467-1.
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