“In January, the Journal of Clinical Investigation
published a “Notice of Concern” regarding the 2010 paper. In this statement,
the journal’s editors reported that several figures appeared to be inaccurately
portrayed and that the authors could not furnish raw data.
Apparently, as a result of this inquiry, first author
Fei Wang, from the Department of Physiology at the university, then admitted sole
responsibility to altering data and figures in the 2010 paper. In total, he
confessed to seven instances of manipulation in the images that supported the
paper’s conclusions. The retraction notice also states authors were unable to
provide raw data used in more than a dozen figures.
Is it a
really news? Are you really surprised? I thought that everybody knows that this
is a part of the game to do all the best to convince people in ontological
consistence of a research. The difference is only in the extent of “to do all
the best”. Somebody is not just saying all the truth, somebody is excluding inconvenient
data results, somebody is manipulating with images.
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