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To: AndyJackson

A huge percentage of published scientific research can’t be dupplicated, of course the social sciences are the worst offender. For the social sciences I think I have seen figures as high as 75% unrepeatable. Biological sciences have had some huge scandals. A fair amount of fraud exists but I think the majority of it is due to sloppiness driven by academic “publish or perish”.


24 posted on 04/13/2020 8:35:01 AM PDT by Reily
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To: Reily

Sloppiness is ineptitude, perhaps, but it isn’t fraud. Academic fraud means fudging your data, or counterfeiting data, or stealing someone else’s research and publishing it as your own [but it’s not a professor putting his name on a graduate student’s research or leaving student’s name off of something where his contribution was perfunctory performance of an assigned task.


35 posted on 04/13/2020 9:29:37 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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