Donald Kennedy
Donald Kennedy
Donald Kennedy is an American scientist, public administrator and academic. He served as Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, President of Stanford University, and Editor-in-Chief of Science Magazine. He resigned as president of Stanford University in 1992 in the wake of a scandal involving expenses charged to the federal government...
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There is no question in our minds that the stem cell paper published 19 May 2005 by the journal Science needs to be retracted.
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We're sort of pondering what they mean by research misbehavior, which is not in anybody's anthology of terms about research impropriety.
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We assumed a certain level of familiarity there and I wasn't about to argue with an agreement among co-authors about order. I don't like complimentary co-authorship and would have asked, I think, if it had occurred to me.
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Today, science's most profound questions address some of the largest phenomena in the cosmos and some of the smallest. We may never fully answer some of these questions, but we'll advance our knowledge and society in the process of trying,
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We are doing a systematic review of the editorial history of both papers and our procedures for evaluating them, to search for ways in which we might improve those. I have pointed out in the past that even unusually rigorous peer review of the kind we undertook in this case may fail to detect cases of well-constructed fraud. To support this effort, we are calling on outside experts, including members of our Board of Reviewing Editors and our Senior Editorial Board.
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We are determined to do everything in our power to evaluate our own procedures for detecting research misconduct.
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We were just really rejoicing thinking that this brother is alive.
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There are enormous pressures to be extremely productive and at the top of the heap.
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The process benefits enormously from the kind of candor that results when referees know that their identity is held in confidence.
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I think it's a 'sauce for the goose, sauce for the gander' proposition. If you're going to be a full co-author and share in the credit for an accomplishment, then you have to take the fall if it's wrong.
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He has made it much more of a place that has a plan and a vision about its own role and its own future, ... Plainly, Caltech has flourished. I dreamed he would have gone on forever.
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He got out with just the clothes on his back.
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We carefully considered the implications of publishing this research and concluded that the knowledge we're gaining to potentially protect public health far outweighs the risk of working with the virus.
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It is clear the authors are going to need to provide more details as to where the errors lie and how they arose.