ntegrity and credibility: twin terms of scientific research

Abstract

With the occurence of the COVID-19 pandemic, science gains a lea-ding role on the world stage. The scientific community has become even more demanding for the presentation of results in a short time. This need for per-formance is now used as a justification by some scientists to neglect some as-sumptions of the scientific method, thus putting scientific credibility at risk. However, unfortunately this questioning is not new. Douglas Altman in his editorial published by JAMA [1], already called attention to the low scientific quality of articles published in medical journals. Currently, in the scientific field, we are experiencing, beyond an epidemic of the virus, an epidemic of information, where it is produced on a large scale and at high speed, often wi-thout complying with due methodological rigor, a fact that compromises the veracity of the information, and contributes to a deficient scientific ecosystem and, consequently, with low credibility