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| Don't trust scientists! |
| The plural of anecdote is not data. Yet, anecdotes of scientific misconduct are accumulating. Everyone knows the most high-profile cases like those of Jan Hendrik Schön or Hwang Woo-Suk. In a recent survey, over 70% of s...[more] |
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| Posted on Tuesday 02 March 2010 - 11:21:05 |
| The decline of tenure and the rise of retractions: causation or correlation? |
| Amidst the recent flurry of discussions about research assessment strategies came Neil Saunders and posted his analysis of the number of retractions indexed in PubMed. At the same time, Giorgio Gilestro weighed in with h...[more] |
| tenure retractions pressure misconduct |
| Posted on Thursday 02 December 2010 - 19:31:15 |
| Science, red in tooth and claw |
| I've been contemplating the current competitive state of science here before. The gist of it was that science may be suffering from too much competition, leading to an increasing incidence of misconduct, such as falsifyi...[more] |
| open access sabotage tenure credibility politics fraud misconduct stress |
| Posted on Thursday 30 September 2010 - 17:10:18 |
| 4,000 new professorships for Germany? |
| No less than 4,000 new professorships is what the German Green party demands in their recent parliamentary paper. Along with this demand go suggestions for several sweeping changes to the German university system: abolis...[more] |
| Green party Germany professorships tenure positions |
| Posted on Thursday 20 January 2011 - 10:48:47 |