Re:Letter to a Peer Reviewer Who Stole and Published Our Man...
by x1798DE on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @10:05PM
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>If you reward the people who plagiarize over the people who actually did the work, there is no more motivation to do the work and the scientific endeavor as a whole suffers.
But why is this more important in science than in any other field? I'm just saying that they're saying it's especially important, but it's actually, at best just as important or possibly less important, because it's more important in science that accurate information get out than in other fields, whether or not it's plagiarized.
> That people get proper credit is less important in scientific research than elsewhere, not more. It's obviously bad incentives, but with science it's most important that the information is accurate and gets out. Doesn't sound like the guy made it less accurate by republishing it with his own name on it.
If you reward the people who plagiarize over the people who actually did the work, there is no more motivation to do the work and the scientific endeavor as a whole suffers.