(NaturalNews) In the first decade of the 21st century, retractions of
papers published by medical journals went up 19 fold, although the
number of manuscripts being published only increased 44 percent. The
reasons behind this surge in evidence of scientific falsification were
examined in a recent editorial in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology • Biology • Physics (the Red Journal), published in October 2013.
"One
of the greatest, and sadly all too common, challenges facing a
contemporary medical journal editor is the adjudication of ethical
integrity issues," Editor-in-Chief Anthony L. Zietman wrote. "I had
originally presumed that this would be just an occasional role, but it
transpires that these problems are quite widespread, ranging from
unconscious and unwitting naivete to the conscious and willful betrayal
of scientific trust."
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