A series of five fraudulent papers by Jan Hendrik Schön were published in Nature in the 2000–2001 period. The papers, about superconductivity, were revealed to contain falsified data and other scientific fraud.
Before publishing one of its most famous discoveries, Watson and Crick's 1953 paper on the structure of DNA, Nature did not send the paper out for peer review at all. John Maddox, Nature's editor, stated that "the Watson and Crick paper was not peer-reviewed by Nature... the paper could not have been refereed: its correctness is self- evident. No referee working in the field ... could have kept his mouth shut once he saw the structure". An earlier error occurred when Enrico Fermi submitted his breakthrough paper on the weak interaction theory of beta decay. When Paul Lauterbur and Peter Mansfield won a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for research initially rejected by Nature and published only after Lauterbur appealed the rejection, Nature acknowledged more of its own missteps in rejecting papers in an editorial titled "Coping with Peer Rejection": in short, to rely on Nature for accurate information is for fools On Dec 10, 3:30 pm, Dave <[email protected]> wrote: > ...The scientific report published in "Nature" magazine suggests that > the world's remaining tropical forests remove 4.8 billion tons of CO2 > emissions from the atmosphere each year... > ...Tropical forest trees are absorbing about 18 percent of the CO2 > added to the atmosphere each year from burning fossil fuels, > substantially buffering the rate of climate > change...http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/02/18/ecoforests.carbonsink/inde... -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more.
