Scientific fraud: a sign of the times?
The infamous Piltdown Man skull. Photograph: Rischgitz/Getty If you read about scientific fraud in the recent news, it would seem that there is much to worry about. It’s on the rise, apparently! There has been a 10-fold increase in the number of retracted papers since the 1970’s, and a number of these are due to fraud or suspected fraud. An investigation of retractions from the biomedical scientific literature database PubMed published in the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA (PNAS) found that a whopping 63.2% of health- and life-science related retractions ...
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