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From: Irene Zweimüller <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 2:56 PM
Subject: #perchgate - Would you have spotted the fraud?
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Several scientists twittered, that a study published in Science
Lönnstedt & Eklöv (2016): Environmentally relevant concentrations of
microplastic particles influence larval fish ecology
Science 352: 1213-1216
was more or less "thin air", e.g. not all of the experiments described were
carried out. The University started an investigation and concluded
misconduct.
Now my question: as a reviewer, would you have detected the fraud?
I found some mistakes in the statistics of the materials and methods
sections (Supplement), but I´m not sure I would have raised hell about the
data.
Is it the responsibility of the reviewer to check, whether there was in
fact an experiment performed? Or the responsibility of the University /
field station etc to make sure, people do in fact work?
How suspicious do we have to be?
I always thought, that fish are too unpredictable to fake fish studies
kind regards
Irene
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Dr. Irene Zweimüller
Fakultät für Lebenswissenschaften
Dept. für Integrative Zoologie
Althanstr. 14
A-1090 Wien
Österreich
Faculty of Lifesciences
Dept. for Integrative Zoology
Althanstr. 14
A-1090 Vienna
Austria
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