Fiona Godlee discusses research misconduct and notes, as UKRIO has stated for some time, that defining research misconduct as fabrication, falsification, and plagiarism ‘…doesn’t do justice to the breadth and depth of behaviours that damage the integrity of science’. The editorial is free to access.
Other material in BMJ explores the issue of missing clinical trial data, correctly identifying it as ‘a threat to the integrity of evidence based medicine’.