Scientific integrity and high standards are essential to the pharmaceutical sciences.
By Mark Crawford
In recent years, there has been an upward trend in falsified results appearing in medical research papers—both as willful fraud and unreliable/irreproducible research. “Research misconduct is certainly more prominent in the media these days,” states Peter Swaan, Ph.D., professor of pharmaceutical sciences at the University of Maryland in Baltimore and editor-in-chief of
Pharmaceutical Research. “This does not mean that all scientists commit fraud. It is a small subsection of the scientific community. Fraudulent papers are like crime rates, they go up and down.