2013-03-20

BRUSSELS - One in twelve medical scientists in Flanders admits to fabricating or manipulating data to make it match a hypothesis. Almost six in twelve say they have witnessed such fraudulent practices. They identify high publication pressure as one of the causes.

Between November and December 2012, Belgian science journalist and Eos Magazine editor Reinout Verbeke distributed an anonymous survey on fraud and pressure to publish among scientists at the medical science faculties of all Flemish universities.

A total of 315 questionnaires were completed. This was the first quantitative survey on scientific fraud in Flanders.

Reinout Verbeke

Reinout Verbeke is a science communicator at the Institute of Natural Sciences in Brussels.
Reinout Verbeke
€7,000 allocated on 12/04/2012
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FPD/2011/926

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