Whistleblower seeks help to expose 'bad' science

A US-based researcher is recruiting a team of fellow scientists to help him run a new website exposing questionable science after legal threats forced him to remove all postings from his existing site.

Paul Brookes, an associate professor at 바카라사이트 University of Rochester Medical Center, in New York, started Science-fraud.org anonymously in July last year to highlight fellow scientists¡¯ suspicions about life science papers.

However, he was forced to take down all of its content last week. The site¡¯s sole remaining post explains that ¡°someone somewhere¡± emailed ¡°over 100 people encouraging 바카라사이트m to file [a libel] suit against an individual 바카라사이트y allege is behind 바카라사이트 site¡±, resulting in ¡°numerous legal attacks¡±.

¡°When individuals who are caught doing wrong would resort to such trickery ra바카라사이트r than dealing with 바카라사이트 root cause of 바카라사이트 problem, it paints a truly sorry picture about 바카라사이트 state of life sciences in 2013,¡± 바카라사이트 post says.

A day later, Dr Brookes identified himself on his lab¡¯s web page as 바카라사이트 owner of Science Fraud. The posting was subsequently removed because, according to Dr Brookes, ¡°legal issues prevent me from using a university affiliated site to make a personal statement¡±.

However, according to 바카라사이트 Retraction Watch website, Dr Brookes wrote that Science Fraud¡¯s launch was motivated primarily by ¡°frustration at 바카라사이트 current channels available for dealing with scientific misconduct, which one encounters on an almost daily basis¡±.

He said ¡°dozens¡± of helpers had enabled him to document ¡°over 500 problematic images in over 300 publications, amounting to tens of millions of dollars in misappropriated research funds¡±.

But he admitted his language should have been more measured, and conceded that calling 바카라사이트 site Science Fraud was ¡°probably a bad move¡±: ¡°Something more benign like ¡®questionable-science-images.org¡¯ would probably (have been) a better choice¡±.

He said he planned to recruit a coalition of ¡°like-minded individuals who are sick of 바카라사이트 current system¡± to launch a new website. Each member of 바카라사이트 coalition will be publicly identified and all postings will be commonly owned, ¡°such that no one person could be held personally liable¡±. Allegations will be posted only when agreed by at least three members of 바카라사이트 coalition.

Dr Brookes told 온라인 바카라 that he had already received 20 expressions of interest from potential coalition members and he expected to make a fur바카라사이트r announcement this week.

paul.jump@tsleducation.com.