Bad Research

[piercehawkeye45]

Originally Posted by classicman

That seems completely reasonable to me since every industry and every profession has its share of shady operators. Every product and every line has its quality control issues. No quality control is 100% effective. Therefore they all MUST BE suspect.

Right now there is a very large amount of pressure on professors and researchers to get grants and put out studies and mistakes and fraud will be an unfortunate consequence of it.

Another large problem is that the reasons for "mistakes" are so varied. It is really tough to tell the difference between outright fraud for profit, mistakes, and people in the middle who feel they have to publish something or risk not getting tenure.