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Originally Posted by Jim Richards
OK, fraud in psychology and biomedical fields. What about other fields? Is this article exaggerating the problem? My initial impression is that it is. What about other fields? I think peer review is generally working, but there will always be cases where it fails. Making the process more open is a good first step.
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Although I don't have any data to back it up, I don't think other fields of science are seeing high levels of fraud. I will admit there is a lot of pressure to publish and fighting for funding can push people to do things that they shouldn't do, but I would hesitate to paint all of "science" with a broad brush.
I have both authored papers and also performed peer reviews so I am familiar with this process (and the folks I work with do this
a lot) and at least at ORNL, there is a very strick code of conduct and fraud of any sort is simply not tolerated. There was a physicist here in my building fired last year for fraud. Zero tolerance.