Saturday, April 5, 2014

Whistle-blowing on the Internet - Solution for problem of Science Fraud?

I came across a very interesting article in Nature News, dated April 3rd 2014, Publicly questioned papers more likely to be retracted,http://www.nature.com/news/publicly-questioned-papers-more-likely-to-be-retracted-1.14979.

I added the following comment which appears on the above web page:


I find this to be very interesting. So a single scientist who put up data about suspected science fraud on a blog was able to stir things up and have nearly a quarter of these suspected fraud cases (put up on the blog) retract or make corrections! That's quite awesome, I think.
Wonderful to know of an editor-in-chief who studies "retractions and irreproducible research". Such studies may provide the means to reduce the science fraud problem to manageable levels.
I certainly like the tone of Fang's last words in the article. I think the Internet should be used as a major tool by all academics and scientists worldwide who want to clean up the academic and scientific publications field of fraud. Some have already used it to good effect but perhaps we need more of the good and clean academics and scientists to step up to the plate and contribute their bit to the cleanup using the Internet.

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