PAGE C6 Science RISE IN JOURNAL RETRACTIONS PROMPTS CALLS FOR REFORMS Retractions of published papers are on the rise, and some scientists fear the situation is out of control.
The impression of callousness was strengthened by an entry in Alastair Campbell's diary, noting jubilantly that exposing the source would "fuck Gilligan" by undermining his story.Lord Hutton rejected the first charge (which has in any case been blunted by Mr Gilligan's own retractions).
Politicians who have erred (foolishly led astray by the patently ridiculous idea that they are supposed to look for ways to improve schools) have rapidly been strong-armed back into the fold: witness the craven retractions by Joe Lieberman and Bill Bradley before the 2000 election.This means that the job of championing vouchers falls by default to the Republicans.
Amid retractions, resignations, and even Alan Sokal-style hoaxes, a crisis has been brewing in the social sciences, and especially in psychology.
They point to his puny climbdowns before liberal pressure groups particularly his rapid retractions of criticisms of affirmative action to appease the teachers' unions.
The study also found that papers from China led the world in retractions due to duplication the same papers being published in multiple journals.
If the newspapers that leapt to compare Jenin to the depredations of the Nazis or to Cambodia's killing fields (yes, really) have changed their minds, their retractions have passed us by.
Mr Simonsohn tracked online auctions of car seats after both the initial rankings and the retractions, to see how prices were affected.
In it a team of authors wrote that in medical journal articles in PubMed, an American database maintained by the National Institutes of Health, there were more retractions due to plagiarism from China and India together than from America (which produced the most papers by far, and so the most cheating overall).
On retractions due to fraud, China ranked fourth, behind America, Germany and Japan".Stupid Chinese Idea"Chinese scientists have urged their comrades to live up to the nation's great history.
After the retractions the Lancet, a British journal, published a broadside urging China to take more action to prevent fraud.
