Fraud is rife in scientific academia. The stakes are high--prestige, money, status, money, careers, money, tenure, money. A scientist is just as likely as anyone else to fall to tempation.
I think I'll keep this article in the "entertainment" category. Such speculation is fun--but only a fool would take it all that seriously.
Um, peer review is other scientists reviewing the research and attempting to replicate the experiments that produced the results. Peerage? Barons and Squires?
Fraud is rife in scientific academia. The stakes are high--prestige, money, status, money, careers, money, tenure, money. A scientist is just as likely as anyone else to fall to tempation.
If a scientist commits fraud, that fall is a long one. It is something that the scientist never recovers from. It wouldn't matter what he/she discovered, absolutely nobody would take them seriously.
Are you really this confused about peer reviewed journals, or are you just trolling?
Why is that proviso particularly operative against THIS article? There's less money available in paleontology (and evolution related subjects generally) than in most scientific fields. Consequently there is LESS fraud. In fact fraud is extremely rare in evolution related fields, as is evident because it would be played up by the press whenever uncovered there. (Exception: fraud by entrepreneurial fossil vendors, although their fraud is almost always exposed BY working scientists.)
Fraud is most common where the most money is, thus the vast majority of scientific fraud occurs in bio-medical fields.
Did you just go through a divorce from a scientist? Man, you are one bitter and ill-informed person, and it seems you hate science.
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Ah a sense of humor. I didn't think you had it in you.
Fraud is rife in scientific academia.
Insanity, however, is still there ...
And you trust the PEERS? I'm glad America moved beyond the peerage. I don't need barons and squires and such--
Fraud is rife in scientific academia. The stakes are high--prestige, money, status, money, careers, money, tenure, money. A scientist is just as likely as anyone else to fall to tempation.
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Ahhh.. the money! I know that when I was in academia, you could hardly find a parking space in the biology faculty parking lot. All the spaces were taken up with Jaguars, Bentleys, Rolls Royces and the like!