Take That Back
12/08/11 16:16 Filed in: GenomeWeb Daily Scan
Submitted by S. Pelech - Kinexus on Fri, 08/12/2011 - 16:16.
With over a million new scientific manuscripts published annually, the actual increase in retracted publications over the last decade is actually pretty inconsequential. It is unlikely that there has been any real increase in scientific fraud for several decades as the pressure to publish for promotion and tenure has not really changed. As pointed out by Derek Lowe, it is a lot easier to detect some kinds of fraud with the Internet and search engines. The best way to confront scientific fraud or deficiencies is for readers of journal articles to be able to add flags or comments at the end of scientific publications if there are issues with post-publication peer-review. Today, this is much easier with electronic rather than printed articles.
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With over a million new scientific manuscripts published annually, the actual increase in retracted publications over the last decade is actually pretty inconsequential. It is unlikely that there has been any real increase in scientific fraud for several decades as the pressure to publish for promotion and tenure has not really changed. As pointed out by Derek Lowe, it is a lot easier to detect some kinds of fraud with the Internet and search engines. The best way to confront scientific fraud or deficiencies is for readers of journal articles to be able to add flags or comments at the end of scientific publications if there are issues with post-publication peer-review. Today, this is much easier with electronic rather than printed articles.
Link to the original blog post.