Comments on: Book review – Fraud in the Lab: The High Stakes of Scientific Research/2020/03/02/book-review-fraud-in-the-lab-the-high-stakes-of-scientific-research/Reviewing fascinating science books since 2017Thu, 30 Nov 2023 16:40:11 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Book review – The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread | The Inquisitive Biologist/2020/03/02/book-review-fraud-in-the-lab-the-high-stakes-of-scientific-research/comment-page-1/#comment-8280Mon, 02 Mar 2020 10:58:02 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=7146#comment-8280[…] Particularly problematic is that industries can simply exploit existing weaknesses in current scientific practice. Academic journals are biased towards publishing novel or positive results. And there is a host of factors stimulating salami science: the publication of more but smaller and statistically underpowered studies, rather than fewer but larger and more powerful ones. These include limited funding, limited time due to short tenures, and the importance attached to publication volume and citation metrics when hiring scientists. The resulting reproducibility crisis and the temptation of doctoring data offer easy pressure points for industry interests (see also my reviews of Stepping in the Same River Twice: Replication in Biological Research and Fraud in the Lab: The High Stakes of Scientific Research). […]

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