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Originally Posted by KaptKaos
Leave peer review out for a moment.
Are you actually saying that research scientists are more moral than the rest of society? If so, what do you base that on?
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To what end? To satisfy a feeling you have in your gut? The process isn't perfect, just as people aren't perfect. The peer review and research conducted by those that don't by into the research results tend to cancel out the incorrect or fraudulent findings. Sometimes it takes time.
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Originally Posted by KaptKaos
...bankers, brick layers or bean-counters
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Bankers and bean-counters have accountability. Brick layers have their work inspected. The only {arguably} compelling reason for fraudulent reviewing of anyone's work is money. And we have seen this from time to time. In biomedical research, this sometimes factors in. It's a big money industry. But trying to generally apply your gut feeling to all of science is simply wrong.