Maybe I should make a science fraud thread separate from this one…
Recently 5 papers were retracted by Harvard faculty and 31 are facing corrections. This was discovered by David Sholto in this piece. Here is what no one has done. We compiled a frequency table of the authors of the disputed pieces. Shown here.
What strikes me is that the names which appear on the most papers are NOT THE JUNIOR PEOPLE , but the PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS of the laboratories!
How can the PIs claim they are ignorant to the fraud if they are the commonality among the bulk of the papers? How can you say a junior person did it, when there is no junior person on all the papers? You either have to postulate a series of junior people who photoshopped, or…
So… a lot of photoshopping in their exhibits? The hell?