The Undoing of a Star Scientist
Michelle Delio,
Wired News,
Sept 26, 2002
The defenders of traditional journals - esteemed publications such as Science and Nature - argue that online publications are not able to provide such rigorous screening. The widely publicized case of a scientist sending numerous - and fudged - articles to these journals undermines that claim. True, the journal editors argue, reviewers cannot be expected to spot every flaw. But reviewers should be able to pick up on identical data submitted for separate results, unrealsitically precise data, or data that violates the laws of physics. Shouldn't they? The thing is, these articles wouldn't have lasted ten minutes on the web before someone spotted the annomalies - and saved scientists (and readers) two years of wasted work.
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