So viel Schlamperei?

6. Februar 2015 von Laborjournal

Auszug aus dem Corrigendum eines Nature-Artikels:

We introduced two errors (by inadvertently removing five data points, two from the wild type and three from Ripk2-/-) into this figure when we were asked to provide a higher-resolution version at the production stage.

Auszug aus dem Corrigendum eines Nucleic Acid Research-Artikels:

The LSD1 panels were inadvertently duplicated on the construction of Figure 4D.

Auszug aus dem Corrigendum eines Froniers in Human Neuroscience-Artikels:

A small part of the data on five of the 43 patients was accidentally displaced in the data file, which affected two of the results presented in the original manuscript.

Auszug aus dem Erratum eines Cell-Papers:

[…] the panel for DMSO control (0.1% apoptosis) was misplaced in the next panel for Y-27632-treated control (0.3% apoptosis).

Auszug aus dem Erratum eines Nature Communications-Artikels:

This Article contains errors in Figs 4 and 6 that were introduced during the production process. In Fig. 4d, the lane labels ‘HA-JMJD2B mut’ and ‘HA-JMJD2B’ on the western blot were inadvertently switched. In Fig. 6b,c, labels for the red and green lines were also accidentally swapped.

Ohne Probleme ließen sich dieser Liste der „inadvertent and accidental errors, duplications and misplacements“ jede Menge weitere Beispiele anfügen. Insbesondere in den letzten Jahren haben Corrections und Errata massiv zugenommen — und auffallend oft bezichtigen sich die Forscher darin selbst solcher versehentlicher Schlampereien. Diesen Beitrag weiterlesen »