MANY scientific studies are flawed. Often, the reason is poor methodology. Sometimes, it is outright fraud. The conventional means of correction--a letter to the journal concerned--can take months. But there is now an alternative. PubPeer is a website that lets people comment anonymously on research papers and so, in theory, helps purge the scientific literature of erroneous findings more speedily. Since its launch in 2012, PubPeer has alerted scientists to mistakes and image manipulation in pap...
MANY scientific studies are flawed. Often, the reason is poor methodology. Sometimes, it is outright fraud. The conventional means of correction--a letter to the journal concerned--can take months. But there is now an alternative. PubPeer is a website that lets people comment anonymously on research papers and so, in theory, helps purge the scientific literature of erroneous findings more speedily. Since its launch in 2012, PubPeer has alerted scientists to mistakes and image manipulation in pap...
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