About the Authors
- Karel Kleisner
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* E-mail: karel.kleisner@natur.cuni.cz
Affiliation Department of Philosophy and History of Science, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
- Veronika Chvátalová
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Affiliation Department of Philosophy and History of Science, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
- Jaroslav Flegr
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Affiliation Department of Philosophy and History of Science, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
Competing Interests
The third author of this study, Jaroslav Flegr, head of IRB of the Faculty of Science, Charles University, was involved in the process of ethical evaluation of Karel Kleisner's project in March, 2010. He was not involved in the research at the time. He and his PhD student, Veronika Chvátalová, joined the project two years later, in May 2012. Karel Kleisner's research has been subject to a process of ethical re-evaluation after this point and Jaroslav Flegr was not involved in this evaluation.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: JF VC KK. Performed the experiments: VC KK. Analyzed the data: KK. Wrote the paper: KK JF.