Showing posts with label lack of procedures for dealing with scientific fraud allegations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lack of procedures for dealing with scientific fraud allegations. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Scientists behaving badly; Economist, 10/7/10

Economist; Scientists behaving badly:

"Fang Shimin claims that Xin Yu Si (New Threads), the website he runs, posts about 100 allegations of scientific fraud a year, and he has become a folk hero as a result. China has no proper procedures for dealing with such fraud and Dr Fang believes that, in the absence of such official channels, a platform of the sort his website provides is indispensable to the fight against misconduct in science."