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Sept. 14, 2015<\/p>\nSept. 14, 2015<\/p>\n
\u201cRising retraction rates reflect (in part) the fact that scientists, journalists and amateur watchdogs have begun scrutinizing research more closely….<\/p>\n
\u201cThis heightened scrutiny \u2013 the very scrutiny that likely contributed to the retractions surge in the first place \u2013 could help reverse the tide, by providing a powerful disincentive to bad behavior. As more scientific misconduct is exposed and shamed,\u00a0researchers who were previously tempted to play fast and loose with their data may now think twice.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2013 From \u201c<\/em>A Scientific Look at Bad Science<\/em><\/a>\u201d by Bourree Lam\u00a0in The Atlantic (September 2015)<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cThe increase in overall retractions is mostly because a higher percentage of journals have begun issuing retractions…. One reason it\u2019s taken a while… could be that they had to develop the necessary guidelines for defining, detecting and dealing with \u2018misconduct\u2019….<\/p>\n \u201c(One) study found that editors are retracting articles significantly faster now than in the past. We might be working our way towards a future in which fraudsters like (Diederik)\u00a0Stapel<\/a>\u00a0won\u2019t build up such massive bodies of literature before being unmasked. Their first or second will be caught, before they\u2019ve done too much damage.\u201d<\/p>\n