Fraud in science: follow the money (Introduction)

by David Turell , Wednesday, April 18, 2012, 05:37 (4603 days ago)

This is for Matt to take off his rose colored glasses. Yes, it will self correct over time, but how many young students will suffer? Let's get it changed now. Cut govermnment grants and get the politics out. Climate change is only one of the fiascos. Kill peer review. Let the editors of journals take change again, as in my day. We did ok.-An excerpt:-"University laboratories count on a steady stream of grants from the government and other sources. The National Institute of Health accepts a much lower percentage of grant applications today than in earlier decades. At the same time, many universities expect scientists to draw an increasing part of their salaries from grants, and these pressures have influenced how scientists are promoted. -"What people do is they count papers, and they look at the prestige of the journal in which the research is published, and they see how many grant dollars scientists have, and if they don't have funding, they don't get promoted," Dr. Fang said. 'It's not about the quality of the research.'"-
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/17/science/rise-in-scientific-journal-retractions-prompts-calls-for-reform.html?_r=2