Fraud finders

摘要

Are biomedical scientists becoming more dishonest? That's one way to read a new analysis, which concludes that retractions for fraud or suspected fraud have increased tenfold since 1975. Arturo Casadevall of Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York and his colleagues studied the 2050 papers listed as retracted on the PubMed database of biomedical papers. The database references 25 million papers published since the 1940s.