Bioethical changing of the “peer review” process

Abstract

The article of Duccio Lombardi published in this issue denotes the difficulty of the “peer review” process to adhere to conventional bioethical rules. The STAPS cells’ case is a clear example of this issue. In addition, many ethical biases of medical journals related to altered or uncorrected data put some negative seeds into the scientific field. Thus, a new approach to publication in biomedical journals, as well as to the “peer review” process, is highly wanted. An interim assessment could be the use of open science, a way to gather and share a report with the scientific community (i.e. the readers, editors, and editorial boards) in order to find new ideas we need to review scientific procedures and data, much more like a shared park, rather then as a personal property.