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Misconduct Widespread in Retracted Science Papers, Study Finds
By CARL ZIMMER
Published: October 1, 2012
Last year the journal Nature reported an alarming increase in the number of retractions of scientific papers a tenfold rise in the previous decade, to more than 300 a year across the scientific literature.
Other studies have suggested that most of these retractions resulted from honest errors. But a deeper analysis of retractions, being published this week, challenges that comforting assumption.
In the new study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, two scientists and a medical communications consultant analyzed 2,047 retracted papers in the biomedical and life sciences. They found that misconduct was the reason for three-quarters of the retractions for which they could determine the cause.
We found that the problem was a lot worse than we thought, said an author of the study, Dr. Arturo Casadevall of Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx.
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formercia
(18,479 posts)which Elsevier now owns the rights to.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsevier
Lionessa
(3,894 posts)Some lead to drugs being approved, human testing being approved, gmo's, and stuff.
Maybe I'm wrong here, but this seems pretty serious.
formercia
(18,479 posts)Peer review standards need to be tightened.
littlemissmartypants
(22,691 posts)yesterday, just mind boggling. Nice catch thanks for posting.