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British Science Needs 'Integrity Overhaul'
from Nature News
British scientists are fundamentally failing to deal with research misconduct, which is widespread in the country, leading experts have warned. At a conference in London yesterday, participants were united in calling for more action on the issue.
"There is a recognition that we have a problem," said Fiona Godlee, editor-in-chief of the British Medical Journal (BMJ) and one of the driving forces behind the meeting.
Coinciding with the meeting, a BMJ survey of 2,782 doctors and medical academics showed that 13% claimed to have firsthand knowledge of "inappropriately adjusting, excluding, altering or fabricating data." Six per cent said that they were aware of cases of possible research misconduct at their institutions that they thought had not been properly investigated.
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