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I have a question: how to fix this? Could enhanced peer review provide a solution? However, the peers are not detectives so I really do not know. It appears we
by tlogan 3y ago
I have a question: how to fix this? Could enhanced peer review provide a solution? However, the peers are not detectives so I really do not know.
It appears we are caught in an inevitable cycle: success in academia is intrinsically tied to more published papers. That inevitably fosters widespread fraud, as a small proportion of unscrupulous individuals will ultimately corrupt the entire system. As noted in the report, his lab had trend of favoring the winners.
Furthermore, we need to consider that there are very powerful external influencer such as politics and corporations, which can sometimes lead to the distortion of data.