Showing posts with label Office of Research Integrity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Office of Research Integrity. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Alarming increase in the number of retractions of scientific papers

www.nytimes.com and www.npr.com
Misdeeds, Not Mistakes, Behind Most Scientific Retractions


When there's something really wrong with a published study, the journal can retract it, much like a carmaker recalling a flawed automobile.
But are the errors that lead to retractions honest mistakes or something more problematic?
A newly published analysis finds that more than two-thirds of biomedical papers retracted over the past four decades were the result of misconduct, not error. That's much higher than previous studies of retractions had found.
That comes as no surprise to those of us who have witnessed the corruption of science by the tens of billions of dollars with which Tony Fauci and his friends at the drug companies have bribed "researchers" in The HIV-AIDS Industry over the past 28 years.
--Terry Michael