Seems like Microsoft Excel has become an accepted tool for researchers to crunch numbers with, in spite of its obvious pitfalls.

I thought it was only economists who fell into this trap https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130417/02263922736/intellectual-bulwark-austerity-economics-collapses-because-three-major-errors.shtml. But it turns out other scientists do, too http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/08/25/excel_hell_messes_up_20_per_cent_of_genetic_science_papers/.

What’s worse is that this is hardly a new observation https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140727/03133828025/using-spreadsheets-bioinformatics-can-corrupt-data-changing-gene-names-into-dates.shtml. I thought science was a process of learning from experience?