Thursday, February 09, 2006

The Scientist : Lies, Damn Lies… and Scientific Misconduct

The Scientist : Lies, Damn Lies… and Scientific Misconduct:

"It’s not clear how many more hits scientific integrity can take: An MIT researcher is fired for fabricating a dozen papers. A pharmaceutical company omits data from key publications about side effects. A South Korean stem cell researcher admits to a stunned nation that, “blinded by work and a drive for achievement,” he submitted a “fake it before you make it” article to Science. It appears that research misconduct has taken its place among the epidemics that scientists need to worry about."

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