New blog post: The case for criminalizing scientific misconduct. If misconduct delayed treatments for Alzheimer’s by just 1 year, it would have cost us 36 million QALYs (Quality Adjusted Life Years), more than Americans lost in World War II chris-said.io/2024/06/17/t... (1/5)

The case for criminalizing scientific misconduct

For a crime that could cost millions of lives, universities have failed to police themselves

Scientists who commit research misconduct extract money from a trusting public so that they may enrich themselves and gain prestige. Along the way they knowingly pollute future research and may cause the deaths of millions.