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In their year end review The Scientist is carrying two stories that trumpet the BAD news in science over the last year.
The lists the Top Ten Retractions in 2014, which seems like more than previous years.
The retractions include:
- STAP stem cell paper retractions from Nature
- Spiking rabbit blood samples with human blood to make it look like an HIV vaccine was working.
- A “peer review and citation ring” got 60 articles yanked
- 120 bogus papers produced by the random text generator
In addition there was A List of the top Science Scandals of the year, some of which are included in the above, but also major containment issues at US government labs, including the discovery of undocumented pathogens in questionable storage.
It wasn't all bad news, a third story listed their nominations for The Years greatest breakthroughs.
Regardless of what we hear in the popular press, it is interesting to see what scientists themselves find most troublesome in their various fields. And it is interesting to note that many of the issues revolve around the review and publishing process.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 28 2014, @03:06PM
When you allow women into science. It's not a problem of IQ or even education. Women are inclined to lie and believe their own lies. It's in their DNA.
Men only lie for fame, women and money and don't actually believe their perpetual motion machine works. That's why they get caught more often.