32 Quotes by Donald Kennedy

It is clear the authors are going to need to provide more details as to where the errors lie and how they arose.

We don't see them as a threat, but possibly as a competitor,

We carefully considered the implications of publishing this research and concluded that the knowledge we're gaining to potentially protect public health far outweighs the risk of working with the virus.

We are doing a systematic review of the editorial history of both papers and our procedures for evaluating them, to search for ways in which we might improve those. I have pointed out in the past that even unusually rigorous peer review of the kind we undertook in this case may fail to detect cases of well-constructed fraud. To support this effort, we are calling on outside experts, including members of our Board of Reviewing Editors and our Senior Editorial Board.

We are determined to do everything in our power to evaluate our own procedures for detecting research misconduct.

We were just really rejoicing thinking that this brother is alive.

Today, science's most profound questions address some of the largest phenomena in the cosmos and some of the smallest. We may never fully answer some of these questions, but we'll advance our knowledge and society in the process of trying,

Academic freedom really means freedom of inquiry. To be able to probe according to one's own interest, knowledge and conscience is the most important freedom the scholar has, and part of that process is to state its results.

This is really a twin tragedy, both for the people who were misled over there, and for those of us who were misled over here.