“Responsibility for Raw Data”: “Failure to retain data for some reasonable length of time following publication would produce notoriety equal to the notoriety attained by publishing inaccurate results. A possibly more effective means of controlling quality of publication would be to institute a system of quality control whereby random samples of raw data from submitted journal articles would be requested by editors and scrutinized for accuracy and the appropriateness of the analysis performed.”

Leroy Wolins writes: Last spring a graduate student at Iowa State University required data of a particular kind in order to carry out a study for his master’s thesis. In order to obtain these data he wrote to 37 authors … Continue reading → …