About $400K for each research paper that is retracted (and funded by NIH; this point not emphasized) according to a research paper examining this issue published in the journal "eLife". Here is a popular media new article from the "Scientist Magazine": http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/40783/title/The-Price-Tag-of-Scientific-Fraud/ The original research article is available here: http://elifesciences.org/content/3/e02956
Bottom line: in comparison to other forms of governmental waste (e.g., contractor fraud in Iraq and Afghanistan), the cost of research fraud is relatively small, the cost being less than 1% of the NIH budget over the time period 1992-2012 (for a total of $58 million; in contrast, for FY2011, the cost of fraud/waster for contracts and grants for Iraq-Afghanistan was estimated to be $31-60 Billion -- that is only one year). It is suggested that given these results, "we must not be careful no to over-dramatise the issue of [research] misconduct." YMMV -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=37976 or send a blank email to leave-37976-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
