Top Harvard Cancer researchers accused of scientific fraud; 37 studies affected

> Despite finding false data and manipulated images, Rollins pressed that it doesn't necessarily mean that scientific misconduct occurred and the institute has not yet made such a determination. The "presence of image discrepancies in a paper is not evidence of an author's intent to deceive," Rollins wrote. "That conclusion can only be drawn after a careful, fact-based examination which is an integral part of our response. Our experience is that errors are often unintentional and do not rise to the level of misconduct."

I m scratching my head! And I am from India.

One of the reasons I never felt I had a place in academia was because of the publish or perish type culture; how can one ensure that their work will find novel discoveries worth publishing? It's hard to imagine staking my career on that bet and dealing with that level of pressure. Perhaps it turns out that people who did pursue that path aren't much better suited to it than I.

Stuff like this really makes you wonder what other kinds of fraud are happening in scientific research, especially in medicine where lives are on the line. Despicable stuff.

The amount of negative stories about Harvard lately tingles my information operation senses. It’s possible that because of name recognition, the average person is more likely to click on a headline with Harvard in it, which drives creation of more Harvard content, but it smells inorganic. How would we be able to tell if it was?

> The Wall Street Journal noted that Rollins, the integrity officer, is also a co-author on two of the studies. He told the outlet he is recused from decisions involving those studies.

Yikes.

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