Re:Danish board calls for retraction of controversial paper
by aaron695 on Thursday November 14, 2013 @11:08PM
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"The DCSD found that the defendant had committed scientific dishonesty by appearing as the sole author of an article and by including a reference which did not support the data it indicated to support"
We all know what's really going on here. It's not a coincidence that this paper is very controversial.
Many, many papers would have errors like the above but are not hunted down like this.
"The DCSD found that the defendant had committed scientific dishonesty by appearing as the sole author of an article and by including a reference which did not support the data it indicated to support."
There have been researchers in this same field who have called for better analysis of data sets, only to find that the data sets are not available.
http://wicherts.socsci.uva.nl/datasharing.pdf
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjourna...
http://www.nature.com/news/psychology-must-learn-a-lesson-fr...
When researchers in a controversial discipline aren't being scrupulous in their scholarly practice, maybe there really is a problem there. (I express no opinion here about Lomborg, who works in a different academic discipline.)