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Granted, this trust is important. But the scientific community would be doing itself a favor if it accepted that fraud occurs and dealt with the problem fairly. Instead, the belief in the primacy of trust blinds scientists to its shortcomings...
Baltimore's appointment has divided the Rockefeller trustees and faculty. Many believe that Baltimore's protective and somewhat arrogant attitude during the investigation raises serious doubts about his qualifications. Even if Baltimore is innocent of wrongdoing, as he probably is, his disinclination toward rooting out fraud among his colleagues is a poor example for the head of a research institution...
...hard-hitting report that accused the scientific community of allowing the pressure to publish to make them too "tolerable of substandard practices," the Institute of Medicine offered some other suggestions for reducing the incentive for fraud. Among them: decreasing the emphasis on publications in promotion considerations and limiting the number of junior faculty members under any one professor...
...surprisingly, these recommendations all originated within the scientific community itself, the only group that can adequately deal with the problem of research fraud. Congress is not qualified to judge the accuracy of primary data, nor is it qualified to determine whether a flaw is a deliberate deception or an honest mistake...
Scientists should recognize that fraud does occur, and that the pressure to publish or perish is the primary cause. It would be in everyone's best interests for scientists to address the problem candidly, rather than ignore it or defensively deny that it exists. Scientists should waste no time in enacting new safeguards of their own, before Congress imposes the clumsy remedy of its choosing. After all, Congress has better things to do than to pick on Nobel laureates...