Pachter Lior
Division of Biology and Biological Engineering & Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 91103, USA.
J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol. 2025 Aug 29. doi: 10.1007/s00359-025-01756-3.
In her book Why trust Science?, Naomi Oreskes examines the question of what it means to say that "science corrects itself", highlighting the importance of the social process of science and specifically the importance of scientists challenging each other in the pursuit of truth. In a recent preprint, a colleague and I did exactly that, reviewing a corpus of work by Australian neuroethologist Mandyam Srinivasan and identifying numerous problems across ten of his papers, including several instances of identical data being reported for different experiments. In a recent editorial, Eric Warrant dismisses our critiques of Srinivasan's work as "sloppiness all of us are capable of", and instead focuses on attacking us, sometimes conflating criticisms of others of Srinivasan's work with ours. Here I review his claims and argue for the importance of truth in the advancement of science.
在她的《为什么要信任科学？》一书中，内奥米·奥雷斯克斯探讨了“科学自我修正”意味着什么这个问题，强调了科学的社会过程的重要性，特别是科学家在追求真理过程中相互挑战的重要性。在最近的一篇预印本论文中，我和一位同事正是这样做的，我们审查了澳大利亚神经行为学家曼迪亚姆·斯里尼瓦桑的一系列研究成果，并在他的十篇论文中发现了许多问题，包括在不同实验中报告相同数据的几个例子。在最近的一篇社论中，埃里克·沃兰特将我们对斯里尼瓦桑研究的批评斥为“我们所有人都可能犯的疏忽”，反而把重点放在攻击我们身上，有时还将其他人对斯里尼瓦桑研究的批评与我们的混为一谈。在此，我将审视他的观点，并论证真理在科学进步中的重要性。
