Word: problem
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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...
...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...
...have a double problem in the Huallaga Valley--coca cultivation and subversion," Garcia said. "Unless coca substitution is gradual, all we will acheive is to make poor peasants even poorer and push them into the arms of the subversive movement...
Many of these students may be afraid to tell family and friends about their handicap; these pitiable souls suffer in silence. Others do not yet know that their painful stomach cramps would disappear if they just cut back on ice cream. Still others may just be denying the problem...