Eve Marder: "owning" your mistakes

Selected quotes:
"I have never been able to understand the logic of journals that refuse to publish a finding if it was ‘scooped’ by a few weeks or months"

"When we turn the pursuit of truth into a race to be first, we encourage sloppiness and increase the likelihood of error (...). So until we embrace the notion that some amount of independent replication deserves the same accolades as the first publication of an important finding, we are de facto creating the temptation to cut corners."

Eve Marder
http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.11628