Fraud in science (Introduction)

by David Turell , Monday, January 07, 2013, 14:01 (4339 days ago)

Be careful what you read and assume is correct:-http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/32687/title/Fraud-Breeds-Retractions/ -"Scientific misconduct contributes to more retractions than previously realized, according to a new analysis published today (October 1) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Using retractions indexed in Pubmed, researchers found that fabrication, falsification, and duplication led to more retractions than error or plagiarism.
"Tracking down these corrections and retractions to find out what is going on is really innovative," said David Resnik, a bioethicist at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, who did not participate in the research. It turns out that "a high percentage of time, there really some kind of misconduct" behind retractions."