Preventing Scientific Fraud

  1. David W. Noble, BMedBiol, MBChB
  1. From the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen, United Kingdom.

    TO THE EDITOR:

    Recent discussions of research misconduct (1, 2) highlight a continuing problem. Being a medical scientist does not make a person immune to human frailties. Indeed, far worse crimes have been committed by doctors (3). Medical publishers also have their frailties, perhaps striving too hard to publish medical investigations with the greatest impact …

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