Editorial rant about honest errors
Earlier this week I saw a discussion here about what tolerance should we have, as authors, readers, reviewers, and researchers in general, to so-called honest errors.
Not calling out names, bc I don’t want to dunk on anyone. The way the argument went was centred around whether we should be less harsh on people who choose to correct their papers after discovering errors.
One “UnpopularOpinion I wanted to express today is that *there are no dishonest errors*.
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Editorial rant about honest errors
@OverlyHonestEditor the question then is, if you notice an error and don’t correct it, does it then become fraud?
@_JAStockdale well, questionable practice at best. I guess perhaps depends on the actual error. But yeah, in many cases I would call not acting on a known errors, esp. if they have implications to the message of the paper, to be fraudulent behaviour.
The conditional is probably key here though.