Mikel Txopitea Elorriaga

Bilbao Area, Spain Spain

Waiter en Otoio Taberna

Medical / Health Care / Pharmaceuticals

As scientist, I see it as my task to promote reproducibility, honesty and fairness in academic research. I believe changes are necessary in the way science is conducted and published, and how scientists are evaluated. We need to achieve unconditional data sharing, transparency in academic research and editorial processes, most importantly in the peer review. The usual science articles restricts itself to repeating after the cues given by scientific elite and leading research institutions. What we mostly read in the science news, is the voice of power and money. The climate of fear is omnipresent in science: bad science is very rarely exposed in the open, fraud and ethics breach are routi...