https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021..../07/05/time-to-assum
This is very good. I think the title is OTT, but appropriately draws attention to the severe risk of fraud, which I’m certain is already a significant minority of research.
This is one of several reasons why I will never work again in applied biomedical R&D. The very stuff I need to trust in order to advise clients is no longer automatically to be trusted. Without that raw material, the whole basis of the post-Enlightenment scientific method is poisoned.
So if anything you mention is countered by peer reviewed journal articles (or doubted, because of their absence), tell them about this. Scientists are not more resistant to incentives to cheat than anyone else & its naive to imagine they are. Yet there are no formal audit methods, processes of training & nobody is building that essential capability.
Best wishes
Mike
