{"id":6136,"date":"2012-10-03T15:17:52","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T13:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=6136"},"modified":"2012-10-03T15:20:30","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T13:20:30","slug":"the-true-reason-for-retractions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2012\/10\/the-true-reason-for-retractions\/","title":{"rendered":"The true reason for retractions?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Retractions are increasing anytime I look around <a href=\"http:\/\/retractionwatch.wordpress.com\">retraction watch<\/a>. A new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/early\/2012\/09\/27\/1212247109\">PNAS<\/a> paper now has the most thorough analysis of retractions:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A detailed review of all 2,047 biomedical and life-science research articles indexed by PubMed as retracted on May 3, 2012 revealed that only 21.3% of retractions were attributable to error. In contrast, 67.4% of retractions were attributable to misconduct, including fraud or suspected fraud (43.4%), duplicate publication (14.2%), and plagiarism (9.8%) &#8230;fraud has increased \u223c10-fold since 1975.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, fraud is the most frequent cause &#8211; and it usually does not come isolated<!--more--> when we look at the supplemental data provided in the PNAS paper. Why should it be worrisome to all of us? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC523133\/\">As a review<\/a> of the &#8220;Great Betrayal&#8221; already found:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nthe most influential academics obtained their seniority from research publications rather than by their teaching or practical skills. To suggest that their positions were attained in a corrupt system reduces their status.\u200bstatus.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 06.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retractions are increasing anytime I look around retraction watch. A new PNAS paper now has the most thorough analysis of retractions: A detailed review of all 2,047 biomedical and life-science research articles indexed by PubMed as retracted on May 3, 2012 revealed that only 21.3% of retractions were attributable to error. In contrast, 67.4% of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2012\/10\/the-true-reason-for-retractions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The true reason for retractions?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[957,2765,1726,1644],"class_list":["post-6136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy-of-science","tag-error","tag-fabrication","tag-falsification","tag-fraud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6136"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6141,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6136\/revisions\/6141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}