The Research Scandal at Stanford Is More Common Than You Think

“This is a major issue, one that extends well beyond one man and his career. Absent public scrutiny, journals have been consistently slow to act on allegations of research falsification. In a field dependent on good faith cooperation, in which each contribution necessarily builds on the science that came before it, the consequences can compound for years.”

This is the really important issue here.  Especially with Alzheimer’s research.  If labs claim that some protein or process is a promising link for some drug going forward, huge amounts of resources will be shoveled toward that link,  and starve other possible avenues of research funding.  It’s not a victimless crime in any way.  I’ve linked to this story before here.