Prejudice, science, etc.

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I found this to be both timely and relevant...

Misconduct Widespread in Retracted Science Papers, Study Finds

In the new study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, two scientists and a medical communications consultant analyzed 2,047 retracted papers in the biomedical and life sciences. They found that misconduct was the reason for three-quarters of the retractions for which they could determine the cause.

... and I also found this at the end of the article...

Correction: October 1, 2012

An earlier version of this story misstated the federal agency housing the Office of Research Integrity. It is the Department of Health and Human Services, not the National Institutes of Health. The earlier version also misstated the reason cited in the study for three-quarters of the retractions for which researchers could determine the cause. It was misconduct, not fraud. (Fraud or suspected fraud accounted for 41.3 percent of retractions; other forms of misconduct made up the rest.)

Hmm. So a scientist and a journalist walk into a bar...

No wonder the public doesn't know who to believe anymore.