Academic regress. An example

This article is a good confirmation that an academic research is not reliable anymore for the development of something worthwhile. (We have proven that earlier. And see also here). Just numbers:

 In 1976, there were fewer than 10 fraud retractions for every 1 million studies published, compared with 96 retractions per million in 2007.

To be specific, the study reviewed 2,047 biomedical and life-science research articles indexed by PubMed and noted as retracted as of May 3, 2012. They found that only 21.3 percent of retractions were attributed to errors. But 67.4 percent were due to misconduct, including fraud or suspected fraud at 43.4 percent; duplicate publication at 14.2 percent and plagiarism at 9.8 percent.

“Incomplete, uninformative or misleading retraction announcements have led to a previous underestimation of the role of fraud in the ongoing retraction epidemic,” the authors conclude.