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Tackling research misconduct
A new system is needed to tackle research misconduct
BMJ 2024; 386 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.q2011 (Published 16 September 2024) Cite this as: BMJ 2024;386:q2011
- Andrew D Weeks, professor of international maternal health
- University of Liverpool, Liverpool Women’s Hospital, Liverpool, UK
- aweeks{at}liverpool.ac.uk
Modern evidence based medicine was built on trust: trust in researchers not to deliberately fabricate scientific research, as well as trust in peer reviewed journals to be gatekeepers of high quality research. Bouter rightly points out that trust in both has been lost.1 Not only is there increasing evidence of deliberate fabrication by researchers as the pressure to succeed grows, …
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