Too many sloppy mistakes are creeping into scientific papers. Lab heads
must look more rigorously at the data — and at themselves. “Handling corrections that have arisen from avoidable errors in
manuscripts has become an uncomfortable part of the publishing process.”
Figuring out what controls to do, and designing experiments aimed at
testing [and falsifying] a hypothesis, should be a major part of
graduate science education. And yet – in many of the papers I referee
and in papers in the literature, I see a lack of this basic capability.
For more information: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v483/n7391/full/483509a.html 
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