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> 2) There should be a higher price to pay for this kind of fraud. At the moment, University incentives are to protect the prestige and not for honesty. There
by david_draco 5y ago
> 2) There should be a higher price to pay for this kind of fraud.
At the moment, University incentives are to protect the prestige and not for honesty.
There should also be a University list of shame, based on author affil of papers accused of fraud.
The trouble and defense will be that any rando can accuse a paper of fraud, and instead one should use finalized decisions (such as retractions). That would cause delays and not lead to any resolution in many cases, and I doubt that the number of papers false accused of fraud based on any substantial statistical analysis is large.
Karma would help. One could then keep track of people who falsely accused papers of fraud in the past, and correctly pointed out papers which were later retracted, and then weigh the University shame list based on that.
- dotancohen 5y ago> There should also be a University list of shame, based on > author affil of papers accused of fraud. The ad-hominen attack is generally considered a form of fallacy. And many significant scientific discoveries were discovered by then-considered-quacks That said, this particular author is egregious and I'm sure his infamy will precede his name in future papers.
- phone8675309 5y agoAnyone who fabricates data forfeits their right to be taken seriously every again.
- dotancohen 5y agoThat's why I said that this particular author is egregious.
- amelius 5y ago> Karma would help. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law