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Man what a mess. I guess if you give someone something to optimize (publications) they will do so. Science has become distracted by celebrity and money. What
by theGnuMe 3y ago
Man what a mess. I guess if you give someone something to optimize (publications) they will do so.
Science has become distracted by celebrity and money.
What a waste of grant money. I hope the NCI, NSF and NIH fund a program to route out scientific fraud, it is clearly needed.
When I was in grad school some fellow students were admonished for plagiarism but allowed to stay. I always think of who was denied a place by these folks.
- mike_hearn 3y agoThe US has a whole department that is supposed to police scientific fraud, the ORI. It was set up in the 70s after a series of fraudulent studies caught the attention of Congress. Unfortunately after a few failed prosecutions early in its history the ORI now does very little, only a handful of cases per year. Compared to the scale of the problem which is often measured in something like 50%+ or more of papers, it's just irrelevant. There is no "police department" you could staff up that'd be big enough to get a handle on this problem.