Objective,smobjective!

So much for the so-called 'objectivity' in science:

Misconduct accounts for the majority of retracted scientific publications

Ferric C. Fang R. Grant Steen and Arturo Casadevall
PNAS PNAS 2012 109 (42) 16751-16752; doi:10.1073/iti4212109

Abstract

A detailed review of all 2,047 biomedical and life-science research articles indexed by PubMed as retracted on May 3, 2012 revealed that only 21.3% of retractions were attributable to error. In contrast, 67.4% of retractions were attributable to misconduct, including fraud or suspected fraud (43.4%), duplicate publication (14.2%), and plagiarism (9.8%). Incomplete, uninformative or misleading retraction announcements have led to a previous underestimation of the role of fraud in the ongoing retraction epidemic. The percentage of scientific articles retracted because of fraud has increased ∼10-fold since 1975. Retractions exhibit distinctive temporal and geographic patterns that may reveal underlying causes.

Plus this published correction.

RetractionWatch points out that this could be the tip of the iceberg

Post Modernism has almost completely destroyed the notion of true truth. The inevitable result of such a predicament usually means that the only method of winning an argument rests finally upon who is physically stronger; ergo tribalism, ergo tribal warfare, ergo our society wandering rather rapidly down the path of Somalia, Libya, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Nigeria, Rwanda etc etc.

Welcome to our brave new world.