Recordkeeping, Reproducibility, and Responsibility

ScientistsSlutsky caserecordkeeping issues-99 and engineers must keep records of their work, using a combination of notebooks, images, and electronic documents and data. Similarly, medical professionals must record each step of diagnosis and treatment in a patient’s medical records. Although keeping precise records may seem mundane, those records are central to many important decisions in science and engineering just as they are in law, medicine, and public policy.