Papers in this group
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Japanese biologist found poisoned at his bench.
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An investigation by a French ecologist into papers authored by Serge Valentin Pangou, director of the Study and Research Group on Biological Diversity in the Republic of the Congo, concluded that at least nine contained material plagiarized from…
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Acupuncture is one of the most widely used and broadly researched of the complementary and alternative therapies, but high-quality trials generally show no benefit over sham acupuncture. Many would view this result as evidence of ineffectiveness for…
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Stem-cell researchers targeted by e-mails from unidentified group.
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Pathology records are at the centre of a new disagreement over disgraced medic Andrew Wakefield.
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In the United States, the Office of Research Integrity and the National Science Foundation both impose legal sanctions for scientific fraud in publicly funded research. The European Commission has no equivalent measures in place. Strict regulations…
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The extensive academic fraud of Diederik Stapel has rocked science. Social psychologist Jennifer Crocker traces the destructive path that cheats follow.
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When colleagues called the work of Dutch psychologist Diederik Stapel too good to be true, they meant it as a compliment. But a preliminary investigative report (go.nature.com/tqmp5c) released on 31 October gives literal meaning to the phrase,…
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A Dutch committee has concluded in a report this week that one of the Netherlands' leading social psychologists made up or manipulated data in dozens of papers over nearly a decade. Diederik Stapel of Tilburg University in the Netherlands was…
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Public Attitudes to Science (PAS) 2011 is the fourth in a series of studies looking at the UK public’s attitudes to science, scientists and science policy.1 The PAS studies represent the Government’s main mechanism for measuring the trends uncovered…
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The effects of herbivory on plant fitness have traditionally parameters. We investigated the direct effect of herbivory on a measure of foliar developmental tions in performance oak, Quercus rotundifolia. present simultaneously, produce such a…
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Allegations over research results highlight the difficulties of investigating high-ranking administrators.
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Some fear that law to aid whistle-blowers will expose researchers to smear campaigns.
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There is increasing concern that most current published research findings are false. The probability that a research claim is true may depend on study power and bias, the number of other studies on the same question, and, importantly, the ratio of…