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How a data detective exposed suspicious medical trials

One problem, several researchers in the field say, is that funders, journals and many in the scientific community give a relatively low priority to such checks. “It is not a very rewarding type of work to do,” Nuijten says. “It’s you trying to find flaws in other people’s work, and that is not something that will make you very popular.”
- www.nature.com