>From a statistical point of view, there could be a rare bad apple reviewer as well as a rare bad apple (fraud intending) author. Life is inherently risky but we still cross streets.
More important, science is based on accessibility of primary data and reproducibility of results. Without primary data (in the normal case SFs) the results are not falsifiable and in Poppers sense en par with quackery. Most editors and authors should be susceptible to that argument. BR -----Original Message----- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dyda Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2009 8:33 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [ccp4bb] pdb-l: Retraction of 12 Structures.... On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:58:27 +0530 Dr. Anthony Addlagatta wrote: >Bernhard, > >I would be worried about sending the structure factors and the coordinates along with >the manuscript. I wonder why? Cheers Fred [32m*********************************************************************** ******** Fred Dyda, Ph.D. Phone:301-402-4496 Laboratory of Molecular Biology Fax: 301-496-0201 DHHS/NIH/NIDDK e-mail:[email protected] Bldg. 5. Room 303 Bethesda, MD 20892-0560 URGENT message e-mail: [email protected] Google maps coords: 39.000597, -77.102102 http://www2.niddk.nih.gov/NIDDKLabs/IntramuralFaculty/DydaFred **************************************************************************** ***[m
