Journal Editors Are Urged To Demand More Evidence: Editors of scientific journals should beef up their level of skepticism about high-profile papers submitted to them and demand solid evidence that the work was completed as described, according to a review of the editorial procedures that led to the publication of fraudulent scientific papers by the now-disgraced South Korean stem cell scientist Hwang Woo Suk.
The review, released yesterday, was commissioned by Science, the American journal that published Hwang's two most important faked papers in 2004 and 2005 and then retracted them in January after investigations in Korea and the United States concluded that the results were almost all fabrications.
