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There’s far more scientific fraud than anyone wants to admit | Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don’t doubt it. I’ve published dozens of papers and no peer reviewer has ever scrutinized one thoroughly enough that they would have caught me if I was faking something.

Academic integrity is probably 75% honor system, which, when met with ridiculous incentives to publish, isn’t a great system.