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Feels to me the risk of discovery is deemed so low that it is cultural/ systemic. How many other cases will be uncovered? But speaking to Science anonymously,
by louwrentius 3y ago
Feels to me the risk of discovery is deemed so low that it is cultural/ systemic. How many other cases will be uncovered?
But speaking to Science anonymously, four former members of Zlokovic’s lab say the anomalies the whistleblowers found are no accident. They describe a culture of intimidation, in which he regularly pushed them and others in the lab to adjust data. Two of them said he sometimes had people change lab notebooks after experiments were completed to ensure they only contained the desired results. “There were clear examples of him instructing people to manipulate data to fit the hypothesis,” one of the lab members says.
The incentives are clear to me, but punishment is less of a deterrent than good incentives, but which incentives would reduce this allegedly fraudulent behavior?