Thursday, January 24, 2013

Study indicates that scientific fraud may have a male bias

A few weeks back I blogged about a paper by Arturo Casadevall , Ferric Fang and others from the University of Washington and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine that investigated retractions in scientific publications and concluded that the majority of retractions could be traced to misconduct, with the majority of misconduct in turn arising from fraud.Now in a recent study , the same authors hone in on some of the details of misconduct and unearth another interesting gem; they find that men are more likely to engage in misconduct compared to women. And yes, this is true even when you correct for the overrepresentation of men over women in academic research. [More]

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