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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It is a recipe only in the sense that 'catch a turtle' is the recipe for turtle soup,
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We are going to be giving that paper careful scrutiny, guided by what we can learn in the course of time about the 2005 one and what went wrong there.
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Science is publishing this study because it provides information necessary for developing drugs and vaccines that could help prevent another global flu pandemic. 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 this virus.
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Scientific fraud is not new to us. It is not rare, but it is not common either. It happens at a frequency that's high enough to bother certainly people in the United States Congress, and probably others as well. But it is not frequent enough to declare that because the peer review system cannot reliably detect it, something has to be done about the peer review system. I think the peer review system is not quite fine, but absolutely the best thing we have.
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At the time of publication, we felt on ethically solid ground.
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We are very, very thankful for the acts of kindness.
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There's no possibility at all of that. It's held under the kinds of conditions the Centers for Disease Control specifies for select agents.
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We don't see them as a threat, but possibly as a competitor,
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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.
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Since we do not yet have sufficient information to proceed with the retraction, we are issuing this statement so that readers are aware that concerns have been raised about the validity of the data in this paper.
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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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It used to be there was a chain store here and there and 'independents' all around. It's the reverse now.
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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.