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Patrick Tabeling

Patrick Tabeling is a French physicist, microfluidics pioneer in France, researcher at the École supérieure de physique et de chimie industrielles de la ville de Paris (ESPCI ParisTech). He has published more than 200 articles in prestigious peer-reviewed journals and his work has been cited more than 14000 times. He has been the director of the Pierre Gilles de Gennes Institute for Microfluidics (IPGG), an interdisciplinary research institution in Paris which regroups more than 300 expert researchers.

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Patrick Tabeling is a French physicist, microfluidics pioneer in France, researcher at the École supérieure de physique et de chimie industrielles de la ville de Paris (ESPCI ParisTech). He has published more than 200 articles in prestigious peer-reviewed journals and his work has been cited more than 14000 times. He has been the director of the Pierre Gilles de Gennes Institute for Microfluidics (IPGG), an interdisciplinary research institution in Paris which regroups more than 300 expert researchers.

Key claims

  1. publication date: 2005 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
  2. publication date: 2010 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

Discussion questions

  1. Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
  2. The record states that the publication date is "2005". What evidence would count against this claim?
  3. The record states that the publication date is "2010". What evidence would count against this claim?
  4. Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
  5. If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?

Bibliography

  1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1319524183

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