This job just keeps getting more and more interesting... http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/18/health/research/18cite.html

It concludes "There are several steps along the way to a published paper where researchers might be asked about already published papers on the same topic. Those who finance the research, the ethics committees that review some studies and the journals that publish the studies all could ask the investigators how they assured themselves they had found prior relevant results" but ...
"none of those groups feel any official responsibility."


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