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This is a big problem with Belgian scientists. Their culture puts a lot of pressure on publishing and so on so they tend to falsify flashy results over just doi
by renewiltord 2y ago
This is a big problem with Belgian scientists. Their culture puts a lot of pressure on publishing and so on so they tend to falsify flashy results over just doing the science.
- rafram 2y agoThe authors were all employed by the University of Minnesota Medical School, and I think only one is Belgian. Not sure how much Belgian science culture has to do with it.
- renewiltord 2y agoPI is Belgian. That culture seeps through to the lab. It's a risk to science.
- hangonhn 2y agoThis heavily cited but then retracted paper also involved University of Minnesota: https://www.science.org/content/article/researchers-plan-retract-landmark-alzheimers-paper-containing-doctored-images https://www.science.org/content/article/researchers-plan-ret...
- f6v 2y agoI hope you realize there’re many different labs with different attitudes. I have one of my degrees from Ghent and what you describe never came up. AFAIK there wasn’t even a requirement to publish a paper for a PhD student to graduate anymore.
- JonChesterfield 2y agoThis statement holds up pretty well if you drop the country from it. Academia follows incentive structures just like everything else. Say you were a software engineer who was paid by how often you shipped code with a nice title but you didn't have to give people the binaries so noone ever ran them. That is, the difference between nice documentation about code that never quite existed and scruffy documentation about code that does really useful things is you get money for the first and fired for the second. Academia isn't quite that extreme but it does have incentives pointed in that direction.