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107 cancer papers retracted due to peer review fraud

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-04-24 04:54|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 About the author: Cathleen O'Grady is Ars Technica's contributing science reporter. She has a background in cognitive science and evolutionary linguistics.

Great detective work and quite interesting fields of study. Love to sip a pint or two with her. Thanks g(r)om.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-04-24 08:46|| 2017-04-24 08:46|| Front Page Top

#2 Other publications by O'Grady found at this Ars link.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-04-24 08:48|| 2017-04-24 08:48|| Front Page Top

#3 Thinking constantly about the evolution of language has caused her to forget how to look at humans as anything other than another species of ape.

Or as my father often injected:
"Monkey see, monkey do!"

Posted by Skidmark 2017-04-24 08:57|| 2017-04-24 08:57|| Front Page Top

#4 You may also look up

Fanelli, D. (2009). How many scientists fabricate and falsify research? A systematic
review and meta-analysis of survey data. PloS one, 4(5), e5738.

Fanelli, D. (2010). Do pressures to publish increase scientists' bias? An empirical
support from US States Data. PloS one, 5(4), e10271.

Fang, F. C., Steen, R. G., & Casadevall, A. (2012). Misconduct accounts for the
majority of retracted scientific publications. Proceedings of the National Academy
of Sciences, 109(42), 17028-17033.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-04-24 09:34|| 2017-04-24 09:34|| Front Page Top

#5 Science, she is not what she used to be.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-04-24 09:35|| 2017-04-24 09:35|| Front Page Top

#6 I generally see it now as taxpayer grant extraction in exchange for state narrative support.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2017-04-24 10:10|| 2017-04-24 10:10|| Front Page Top

#7 Seems most "scientific" papers of the last 20 years are suspect.

Gee, what changed about then?

Posted by DarthVader 2017-04-24 10:15|| 2017-04-24 10:15|| Front Page Top

#8 G. W. Bush destroyed science by ... lessseee ... restricting nearly-human parts for stem-cell research?

Or was he one of those science-settled-skeptics, too?

Posted by Bobby 2017-04-24 12:54|| 2017-04-24 12:54|| Front Page Top

#9 I've come to be suspect of projects funded by government dollars. A few year ago, I headed up a project funded by the feds. The project involved the evaluation of several competing designs. The government had a "favored design." Our research did not support their favored design and was reported as such. We did not get the follow-on research.

Posted by JohnQC 2017-04-24 17:03|| 2017-04-24 17:03|| Front Page Top

#10 Our research did not support their favored design and was reported as such. We did not get the follow-on research.
Posted by JohnQC

I seem to recall a team of microbiologists dispatched to Baghdad some years ago to examine potential WMD trailers belonging to Saddam. Their findings did not support the gov't WMD narrative either. The team lead, a contractor, was quietly dismissed a few months later.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-04-24 17:10|| 2017-04-24 17:10|| Front Page Top

#11 Whatever his ethics, GWB hugely advanced the field of immunology and human repair by constraining the stem cell lines to those already existing. His action forced the research community to seek other sources than cannibalized dead infants.

Now, autoimmune cures exist for cancer, vision degeneration, organ failure, joint repair and heart regeneration. Spinal damage is on the way.

Abuse him and his intellect as you will. The decision process worked.

Posted by Skidmark 2017-04-24 23:15|| 2017-04-24 23:15|| Front Page Top

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