Killing the messenger: should scientific journals be  responsible for policing scientific fraud?

Marušić, Ana; Marušić, Matko

doi:10.5694/j.1326-5377.2006.tb00408.x

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The responsibility lies with the scientific community

Since, both in importance and in time, health precedes disease, so we ought to consider first how health may be preserved, and then how one may best cure disease.

1 School of Medicine, Zagreb University, Croatia.
2 Croatian Medical Journal, Zagreb, Croatia.

Correspondence: marusica@mef.hr

Competing interests:

The Croatian Medical Journal is a member of the ICMJE.

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