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    "title": "Study Finds Misconduct Widespread in Retracted Scientific Papers",
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    "html": "<blockquote>\n<p>Last year the journal Nature reported an alarming increase in the number of retractions of scientific papers -- a tenfold rise in the previous decade, to more than 300 a year across the scientific literature.</p>\n<p>Other studies have suggested that most of these retractions resulted from honest errors. But a deeper analysis of retractions, being published this week, challenges that comforting assumption.</p>\n<p>In the new study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, two scientists and a medical communications consultant analyzed 2,047 retracted papers in the biomedical and life sciences. They found that misconduct was the reason for three-quarters of the retractions for which they could determine the cause.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>via <em><a href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/02/science/study-finds-fraud-is-widespread-in-retracted-scientific-papers.html?ref=science&amp;_r=1\">Study Finds Misconduct Widespread in Retracted Scientific Papers - NYTimes.com</a></em>.</p>\n"
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