Doctoring the Evidence
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The British Medical Journal has just revealed that around 13% of UK based scientists or doctors have "witnessed colleagues intentionally altering or fabricating data during their research or for the purposes of publication."
The editor in chief writes "While our survey can't provide a true estimate of how much research misconduct there is in the UK, it does show that there is a substantial number of cases and that UK institutions are failing to investigate adequately, if at all."
I can see the temptation to fiddle the figures when a scientist is dependent on giving the 'right' results to a government department, say, in order to have his or her employment funded for the coming year.
There must be better ways of paying for science. We need good scientists in this country rather than training them and then exporting them.
