SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS exist to do one factor: present correct, peer-reviewed reviews of latest analysis to an viewers. But in line with a paper revealed in PNAS on August 4th, that lofty aim is badly compromised. Scientific fraud, its authors conclude, occurs on a large scale and is rising shortly. In truth, although the variety of scientific articles doubles each 15 years or so, the quantity regarded as fraudulent has doubled each 1.5 years since 2010 (see chart). If nothing is finished, says Luís Nunes Amaral, a physicist at Northwestern University in Chicago and the examine’s senior writer, “The scientific enterprise in its current form would be destroyed.”