retracted scientific publications


On Thursday, June 6, 2013 8:42:23 AM UTC+1, Granity wrote:

Medical research, the most fraudulent thing there is in the scientific
community, it also ranks along side climate science for 'bad' science:

From:
Abstract
A detailed review of all 2,047 biomedical and life-science research
articles indexed by PubMed as retracted on May 3, 2012 revealed that
only 21.3% of retractions were attributable to error. In contrast, 67.4%
of retractions were attributable to misconduct, including fraud or
suspected fraud (43.4%), duplicate publication (14.2%), and plagiarism
(9.8%). Incomplete, uninformative or misleading retraction announcements
have led to a previous underestimation of the role of fraud in the
ongoing retraction epidemic. The percentage of scientific articles
retracted because of fraud has increased ∼10-fold since 1975.
Retractions exhibit distinctive temporal and geographic patterns that
may reveal underlying causes.
'Misconduct accounts for the majority of retracted scientific
publications' (http://tinyurl.com/lbcnv2s)

And most bad research is never retracted.


NT