Saturday, January 21, 2023

Unearned authorship pervades science so do other questionable research practices

Science is a human endeavor! Like all human endeavors it is flawed! 

Anybody, who claims science is beyond doubt is a fool and/or a charlatan! The history of science is littered with once great, widely accepted, but in hindsight grotesque theories that became obsolete!

"... The International Research Integrity Survey (IRIS) received responses from around 47,000 academics in Europe and the United States about their experience of eight QRPs, including inadequate peer review; deliberate failure to report contradictory findings; lack of supervision of junior colleagues; and conducting research without ethics approval. Inappropriate authorship — listing authors who did not adequately contribute to a manuscript — was the most common QRP encountered by the respondents. ...
The responses were collected from academics across a broad range of fields, including the natural sciences, social sciences and humanities. ..."

Unearned authorship pervades science

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