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February 12, 2008
Biology Journal Cites Plagiarism in Retracting Creationist Paper
The peer-reviewed journal that published a biology paper mentioning the “mighty creator” has retracted the article. The paper’s downfall was not its creationist statements, however, but its “apparently plagiarised passages from several previously published articles,” according to a news release issued by the journal’s publisher, Wiley-VCH.
The paper has drawn a blizzard of criticism in the blogosphere about the peer-review process at the journal, Proteomics. The editor of the journal, Michael J. Dunn, a professor at University College Dublin’s Conway Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Research, told The Chronicle last week that the paper had passed peer review.
Today’s announcement says that the two authors of the article, who are scientists at Inje University, in South Korea, agreed to the retraction. Initially only one of the authors had asked for a retraction.
In the news announcement, Mr. Dunn said: “Clearly human error has caused a misstep in the normally rigorous peer review that is standard practice for Proteomics and should prevent such issues arising.” —Lila Guterman
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This is a thin announcement. Dunn does not assert external reviewers are to blame, and relatedly he does not answer for his own role here. The paper in question had an absurd title and a preposterous abstract. The ultimate fraudulence of the paper was advertised from the get-go.
— Jay Clayton Feb 12, 02:51 PM #
Agree with Jay. Whatever associate editor was responsible for handling this piece of trash needs to go. Some accountability, please!
— Gerard Harbison, UNL Feb 12, 06:35 PM #
I also agree. Plagiarism must be taken seriously. In college and high school we treat plagarsim very seriously but over here we have Professors accused of plagerism. Now days students use sites like
tutorvista.com and
http://www.myhwsolution.com to plagerize. The review process of this journal is definately flawed. The reviewers are also responsible because they failed to do their job.
— James Howard Smith Feb 19, 05:51 AM #