[Jack Hammer]

These included dropping data points based on a “gut feeling” and failing to publish data that contradict one’s previous research.

There’s your ‘Global Warming’ right there.

[trumandogz]

Peer Review.

[Always Right]

for global warming whackos it is closer to 99 percent.

[nathanbedford]

If this is happening in the peer reviewed "hard" sciences can you imagine what is happening in the "science" of economics?

It does not even bear thinking about to consider what is going on in the social "sciences."

Finally, what is about to happen in the census will make Potemkin proud. It is upon this data that much of the government's plans for your life and mine will be predicated. The temptation to cook that book will be irresistible.

[thecabal]

I bet the true numbers are even higher. “Science” these days is all about getting the next grant and advancing your political agenda.

[xcamel]

same relationship between women and orgasms?

/sarc

[Entrepreneur]

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Only one in seven?

[RoadTest]

“One in seven scientists say colleagues fake data”

Follow the money trail.

[Larry Lucido]

The discrepancy between the number of scientists owning up to misconduct and those having been observed by colleagues

What discrepancy?? More than one person can observe the same miscreant, can't they? What kind of "science" went into the analysis of this data.

On another topic: One in seven commuters saw another commuter in an accident today. But only 0.1 percent of commuters admitted to being in an accident. Gee, what a discrepancy!