Thursday, August 11, 2011

If you can't plagiarize it, well, then just make it up

A cancer researcher who until recently was an assistant professor of medicine at Boston University has been barred from eligibility for federal research money for two years after he was found to have fabricated data in two papers published in scientific journals. The action against Sheng Wang, whose articles have now been retracted, is part of a surge in retractions by medical journals in recent years.
http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/boston-u-researcher-is-sanctioned-as-retractions-spike/35218?sid=pm&utm_source=pm&utm_medium=en
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