VIDEO: You don’t get to 11 million papers without a few dodgy results

You may be more familiar with Mark Zuckerberg than David Lipman. But Lipman — who has directed the US National Center for Biotechnology Information in Bethesda, Maryland for the past 22 years — may have had a more revolutionary impact than the Facebook founder on the way scientists interact by creating the ultimate network for biomedical research: PubMed.

In this following spoof of The Social Network, students from Imperial College London’s Scientific Communication program retell the story of how PubMed began.

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