As Science celebrates its 125th birthday, we've recognized that an examination of science's outstanding mysteries also reflects its tremendous accomplishments. |
At the time of publication, we felt on ethically solid ground. |
He got out with just the clothes on his back. |
He has made it much more of a place that has a plan and a vision about its own role and its own future, ... Plainly, Caltech has flourished. I dreamed he would have gone on forever. |
He has made it much more of a place that has a plan and a vision about its own role and its own future. Plainly, Caltech has flourished. I dreamed he would have gone on forever. |
I think it's a 'sauce for the goose, sauce for the gander' proposition. If you're going to be a full co-author and share in the credit for an accomplishment, then you have to take the fall if it's wrong. |
In a way it was a bad year for evolution, given what happened in Kansas and Dover and lots of other places. But at the same time, it was a really good year for evolution research, really in every area of biology. |
It is a recipe only in the sense that 'catch a turtle' is the recipe for turtle soup, |
It is clear the authors are going to need to provide more details as to where the errors lie and how they arose. |
It used to be there was a chain store here and there and 'independents' all around. It's the reverse now. |
Science is publishing this study because it provides information necessary for developing drugs and vaccines that could help prevent another global flu pandemic. 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 this virus. |
Scientific fraud is not new to us. It is not rare, but it is not common either. It happens at a frequency that's high enough to bother certainly people in the United States Congress, and probably others as well. But it is not frequent enough to declare that because the peer review system cannot reliably detect it, something has to be done about the peer review system. I think the peer review system is not quite fine, but absolutely the best thing we have. |
Since we do not yet have sufficient information to proceed with the retraction, we are issuing this statement so that readers are aware that concerns have been raised about the validity of the data in this paper. |
The Lord just smiled on us about that. |
The process benefits enormously from the kind of candor that results when referees know that their identity is held in confidence. |