Comment Biology's problem (Score 2) 197
Whenever one of these stories is posted about inaccurate and falsified research papers, it's always a field related to biology. This doesn't seem to be nearly as much of a problem with the hard sciences (physics, chemistry). We should avoid rhetoric like "science has lost its way" since the problem is mostly isolated to one branch of science and such statements only serve as ammo for the anti-science crowd. Disclaimer: I'm a physicist.