"Retraction of biomedical and life science research papers for fraud or misconduct is more widespread than previously thought and is roughly 10-fold more common today than in 1975"

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23033379

BMJ. 2012 Oct 2;345:e6658. doi: 10.1136/bmj.e6658.

Fraud, not error, is why two thirds of biomedical papers are withdrawn.

Roehr B.

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Washington, DC.

Retraction of biomedical and life science research papers for fraud or misconduct is more widespread than previously thought and is roughly 10-fold more common today than in 1975, shows a new study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.1