Scientific Misconduct: The Elephant in the Lab. A Response to Parker et al.

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 899-900

  Clark, Timothy D ^a   Binning, Sandra A ^b   Raby, Graham D ^c   Speers Roesch, Ben ^d   Sundin, Josefin ^e   Jutfelt, Fredrik ^f   Roche, Dominique G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^e UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

confirmation bias; fraud; HARKing; P hacking; replicability; reproducibility

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT;

HUMANS; SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT;

EID: 84994406587     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2016.09.006     Document Type: Letter

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