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Fraud instead of cutting-edge research - When scientists cheat (2018x15)

: 24, 2018

A harmless research on superfoods unexpectedly turns out to be a science scandal involving top universities, top researchers and even a science minister. More and more often, scientists publish their research results in Open Access journals, which also print "scrap studies" without quality control. Experts are sounding the alarm that the whole system is under threat if more and more bad research is circulating under the guise of science. How does the system work in practice? The author Peter Onneken has tried it. With the claim: Chia seeds make clever, he made it in trade journals and at conferences. But poor research can also harm the consumer, especially when it comes to life and death.