May 27, 2015

Behind Science Fraud, Chapter 4

(Steven Hayward) Richard Horton, the editor of The Lancet, the pre-eminent medical journal that was stung by one of the worst science frauds of the last decade (Andrew Wakefield's phony vaccine-autism link paper), has a fascinating note reporting on the conversations at a recent conference of scientists in the UK about the problems of scientific review. A few of his statements are genuinely eye-popping: "A lot of what is published is incorrect." I'm

Source: Power Line