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Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

Where do they get their data?

From research. They are both peer-reviewed journals. You do some research, write up your findings, then send it in, and hope it gets accepted for publication (if it has something to offer). The editorial board of specialists in your field review it, if it passes their scrutiny (they often send it back to you for revision) then it gets published, then everyone else in your field can write letters to the editor telling how your conclusions were in error, your methodology was suspect, etc. If it survives challenge as to the validity of the findings and/or conclusion (people often disagree on the conclusions to be drawn from valid research datum), it becomes accepted as part of the current scientific knowledge base.

Or you could read the Daily Herald.

If you read the original work by Watson and Crick as published, it's alot more fun to look in the next issue of the magazine. There are a couple of letters to the editor questioning the validity of their conclusion regarding the double-helix structure of DNA. Fighting scientists are fun