A few weeks ago, I wrote about a peer-reviewed study on green hydrogen that failed to disclose its gas industry funders and the role of an industry-aligned lobbyist. The journal has now launched an investigation.
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“This is the appropriate action for the journal to take,” said told me. “They need to see if things were done incorrectly or wrongly." Depending on what they find, the authors could be cleared, the paper's disclosures could be amended, or it could be retracted.
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“If the journal doesn’t take this kind of thing seriously, it’s a problem for the whole research endeavor,” said Regina LaRocque, a physician and researcher who is also a climate activist. “Our entire ecosystem of science depends on the integrity of the people doing it.”
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Currently the top story on Hydrogen Insights. Well done!
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thank you for this kind of reporting. there's just so much oil and gas money out there.
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This is great news!
I hope the review will be conducted honestly. The study’s authors have already lied in their declaration that “the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.”
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It’s also unsettling that following an initial inquiry from the Globe about the study, the Offices of Research Administration and Research Integrity at UMass Lowell (where the research was done) had looked into it and “found no evidence of wrongdoing.”
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