Monday, January 23, 2006

What Peer Review Can't Do

Here's a piece by Peter Dizikes from yesterday's Boston Globe about fraudulent research in published scientific literature, and why peer review is not enough to stop it.

Update 1/24/06: And it's not just fraudulent data. The New York Times says it's the pictures too.

posted by pn at 11:20 PM  

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Fed. R. Evid. 702: If scientific, technical, or other specialized knowledge will assist the trier of fact to understand the evidence or to determine a fact in issue, a witness qualified as an expert by knowledge, skill, experience, training, or education, may testify thereto in the form of an opinion or otherwise, if (1) the testimony is based upon sufficient facts or data, (2) the testimony is the product of reliable principles and methods, and (3) the witness has applied the principles and methods reliably to the facts of the case.