Academics Anonymous: scientific publishing is a licence to print money, not the truth

By Academics Anonymous. Publicity-hungry journals have created a climate in which dishonest scientists can thrive Earlier this year, newspapers reported on the discovery of a simple protocol that could turn any kind of cell into a super-pluripotent stem cell – referred to as a Stap cell. The discovery, published in two articles in the prestigious scientific journal Nature, held out the promise that scientists could develop simple procedures to create patient-matched stem cells. More...