Re:Allegations of Scientific Misconduct Mount as Physicist M...
by cm2187 on Friday March 10, 2023 @10:32AM
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Medicine is a great area for scientific fraud. Unless you research a super common disease you need to have the relevant patients (which means only a handful of people can replicate your study), the sample groups tend to be small, and there is a million other factors to explain away why your results may differ from another study. To the point that there is a large grey area between outright fraud and unconvincing results (small impact that may very well be noise).
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Re:Allegations of Scientific Misconduct Mount as Physicist M...
by DanielBMarkham on Friday March 10, 2023 @02:47PM
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Medicine is an interesting area because all of the incentives lean towards incremental, long-term subscriptions for small-but-measurable gains. So if your fraud is an improvement by 2.5% instead of 2.45%, it's both unlikely to get a lot of attention and quite likely to get incorporated into the new drug development pipeline. All of the players except for the general public seem to have reached their goals here. Even if the fraud is detected during drug production it's probably small enough not to warrant a scandal, and who wants to shut down their next great drug production pipeline for what might or might not be a fraud and even if it was doesn't amount to very much?
Re:Allegations of Scientific Misconduct Mount as Physicist M...
by epicureanideal on Friday March 10, 2023 @08:16PM
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Clearly we need adversarial science teams. Some people not connected and perhaps by law never connected directly or indirectly to each other that try to disprove the other team’s results. No husbands and wives and relatives and kids working for the other team.