Trust in me?
Vigilance is the watchword when tackling bad actors in the sciences
As the father of two small children I’ve recently been reacquainted with Disney’s animated classic The Jungle Book. Mowgli’s meeting with the hypnotic Kaa got me thinking about trust. The slippery snake Kaa implores him to ‘trust in me’, something that would have been repaid by a nasty end. Mowgli learns that trust should not always be given freely, an important lesson – and one that scientific publishing recently learnt the hard way.