Their faith is intact, |
There are enormous pressures to be extremely productive and at the top of the heap. |
There is no question in our minds that the stem cell paper published 19 May 2005 by the journal Science needs to be retracted. |
There's no possibility at all of that. It's held under the kinds of conditions the Centers for Disease Control specifies for select agents. |
This is really a twin tragedy, both for the people who were misled over there, and for those of us who were misled over here. |
This was a carefully constructed fraud and appears to have involved many people. |
Today, science's most profound questions address some of the largest phenomena in the cosmos and some of the smallest. We may never fully answer some of these questions, but we'll advance our knowledge and society in the process of trying, |
We are determined to do everything in our power to evaluate our own procedures for detecting research misconduct. |
We are doing a systematic review of the editorial history of both papers and our procedures for evaluating them, to search for ways in which we might improve those. I have pointed out in the past that even unusually rigorous peer review of the kind we undertook in this case may fail to detect cases of well-constructed fraud. To support this effort, we are calling on outside experts, including members of our Board of Reviewing Editors and our Senior Editorial Board. |
We are going to be giving that paper careful scrutiny, guided by what we can learn in the course of time about the 2005 one and what went wrong there. |
We are very, very thankful for the acts of kindness. |
We assumed a certain level of familiarity there and I wasn't about to argue with an agreement among co-authors about order. I don't like complimentary co-authorship and would have asked, I think, if it had occurred to me. |
We carefully considered the implications of publishing this research and concluded that the knowledge we're gaining to potentially protect public health far outweighs the risk of working with the virus. |
We don't see them as a threat, but possibly as a competitor, |
We were just really rejoicing thinking that this brother is alive. |