Jamieson, K. H.

Kiermer, V.

McNutt, M.

Sever, R.

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LETTERREPLY TO KORNFELD AND TITUS:No distraction frommisconductKathleen Hall Jamiesona, Marcia McNuttb,1, Veronique Kiermerc, and Richard SeverdKornfeld and Titus (1) argue that we (2) deceive our-selves by focusing on signaling adherence to scientificnorms rather than on perpetrators of scientific misconduct.This is not the case. We explicitly advocate that fundersmake research ethics a condition of support; that institu-tions provide education and investigate misconduct fairly,rapidly, and transparently while protecting whistleblowers;that journals act quickly to correct the record; and thatspanning organizations such as the National Acade-mies establish norms and arbitration mechanisms.Our core contention is that scientists and the outletsthat publish their work should not only honor science’sintegrity-protecting norms but also clearly signal when,and how, they have done so. Many of the interven-tions that serve those ends (including the use of check-lists, badges, statistical checks, plagiarism checks,ORCIDs, forward linking, an improved withdrawal on-tology, and more complete declaration of competinginterests) help detect and discourage cheating.At the same time, they help uncover and increaseawareness of biases that can undermine researchers’ability to fairly interpret their findings. Significantly,these indicators of trustworthiness clearly signal thatthe scientific community is safeguarding science’s normsand institutionalizing practices that protect its integrityas a way of knowing.1 D. S. Kornfeld, S. L. Titus, Signaling the trustworthiness of science should not be a substitute for direct action against researchmisconduct. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 117, 41 (2020).2 K. H. Jamieson, M. McNutt, V. Kiermer, R. Sever, Signaling the trustworthiness of science. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 116, 19231–19236 (2019).aAnnenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104; bNational Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC20001; cPublic Library of Science, San Francisco, CA 94111; and dCold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724Author contributions: K.H.J., M.M., V.K., and R.S. wrote the paper.Competing interest statement: M.M. is the president of the National Academy of Sciences, the publisher of PNAS. V.K. is the publisher andexecutive editor of the Public Library of Science, a member of the Materials, Design, Analysis, and Reporting working group (DOI: 10.31222/osf.io/9sm4x), and chair of the Open Researcher and Contributor ID board of directors. R.S. is the assistant director of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Pressand cofounder of the preprint servers bioRxiv and medRxiv.This open access article is distributed under Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CC BY).1To whom correspondence may be addressed. Email: mmcnutt@nas.edu.First published December 10, 2019.42 | PNAS | January 7, 2020 | vol. 117 | no. 1 www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1918001116LETTERDownloaded at MAIN LIBRARY on January 22, 2020 

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