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发帖数: 6456 | 1 Why a Nature article raises suspicions.
'Open comments' could help to dispel doubts.
In a published Nature article, how many errors are too many? That question
has haunted German researcher Amparo Acker-Palmer after she and her
colleagues published a study in Nature “Ephrin Bs are essential components
of the Reelin pathway to regulate neuronal migration.” in April 2011. In
the wake of that publication, many readers wondered whether Palmer’s
publication was aided by fabricating the figures. She has never been proved
manipulation in her publications and the editorial office of Nature issued a
correction declared that her publication was simply an error in image
choice. There is no debate with any racial and political undertones: One
with little scientific training can figure out that the original figures are
fake. We reexamine how a renowned Journal covered up this mishandling in
their editorial office and whether the limits of human errors could be used
to catch cheaters.
Was Palmer’s article anomalous?
Yes. The Figure 1b and c are supposed to come from two different mice.
However, the patterns between penal b and c are exactly the same, suggesting
they are actually from the same image. These similarities are, of course,
human errors as claimed by the authors. But what really raised eyebrows was
the total number of errors the authors made in the entire manuscript, in
which 11 figures in total are corrected for “human errors”. The number of
errors included in this Corrigendum is more than any other Corrigendum of a
single paper published in Nature over the past several years.
Doesn't a self-claimed human error rule out the possibility of cheating?
No, says many fellow scientists in the Universities around U.S. and overseas
. Researchers are much more likely to make mistakes while conducting their
experiments. Usually when they found out, the results will not be written in
a manuscript. Following Palmer’s publication, “Everyone will pass at the
editorial office of Nature. Hardly anyone retracts their fabricated results
in Nature,” many scientists say. | g********i
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: Why a Nature article raises suspicions.
: 'Open comments' could help to dispel doubts.
: In a published Nature article, how many errors are too many? That question
: has haunted German researcher Amparo Acker-Palmer after she and her
: colleagues published a study in Nature “Ephrin Bs are essential components
: of the Reelin pathway to regulate neuronal migration.” in April 2011. In
: the wake of that publication, many readers wondered whether Palmer’s
: publication was aided by fabricating the figures. She has never been proved
: manipulation in her publications and the editorial office of Nature issued a
: correction declared that her publication was simply an error in image
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