Two Thirds of All Scientific Publications and Research Retracted Found to Be Fraudulent and Prof C Busby on academic dishonesty (Video)

“However, all of these peer-reviewed publications can exert great influence on decisions and the attitudes of many people, therefore the public should in no way tolerate such an epidemic.”

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“Chris Busby calls for the development in Society of legal mechanisms to investigate issues of scientific dishonesty like those in Denmark. Such issues, he argues, can be seen in the same category as perjury in criminal court cases for which serious sanctions exist.”

Written by Andrew Puhanic

2 October 2012

Biomedical and life-science research publications retracted because of fraud by country

N astonishing two-thirds of all biomedical and life-science research publications and research articles that have been retracted from the public domain have been retracted because of fraud.

An article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America reviewed more than 2000 scientific articles for reasons why they were retracted from public scrutiny and discovered that67.4% of retractions were attributed to misconduct, of which includes fraud or suspected fraud (43.4%), duplicate publication (14.2%) and plagiarism (9.8%)

“Also, the number of articles retracted from circulation has increased 10 times since 1975.”

The top three publications that had the most retracted entries were:

Journal of Science
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
The Journal of Biological Chemistry

However, the most alarming statistic from this publication is the fact that on average it took more than 32 months for the publications and research articles to be discovered and withdrawn.

Publications and research articles retracted because of fraud took an average 46 months to be discovered and withdrawn.

So what’s so alarming about having publications and research articles in circulation for so long before being discovered to be fraudulent? Well, the major problem is that decisions and policy development could be falsely derived from one of these publications, resulting in public policy based on false assumptions.

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http://www.theglobalistreport.com/publications-research-articles-retracted-fraud/

Dr Chris Busby at the Royal Society: Scientific Dishonesty

Uploaded by radioactivebsr on Jan 7, 2012

Following up his 2007 book “Wolves of Water” Chris Busby calls for the development in Society of legal mechanisms to investigate issues of scientific dishonesty like those in Denmark. Such issues, he argues, can be seen in the same category as perjury in criminal court cases for which serious sanctions exist. The essay has been published in Iraq-Silent Death edited by Chris Scherrer (University Sains Malaysia 2011) and is also to be found, (together with several examples of possible scientific dishonesty) presented on the website of the Low Level Radiation Campaign www.llrc.org The matter is one of democracy and goes to the core of expert evidence on Policy to governments. It is argued that scientists (like those who talk down the Fukushima catastrophe) or those like Prof Wade Allison who advise people to move into radioactive areas because doses of up to 100mSv a month are harmless, should be investigated in a court or law and if found guilty of knowingly giving bad advice (rather than being stupid or careless) suffer penalties.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOI-wpMlq28