I'll say something that, perhaps, would have been controversial some years ago: There should be more retractions from Canada. I don't mean any disrespect to your great nation. There should be more retractions from the United States of America. I could go on. The fact is that it's good news we're finding them. There are fields and, in fact, journals sometimes, that.... We heard the case earlier, in the previous panel, of Jonathan Pruitt. It's pretty bad news when this misconduct happens. I believe the number of retractions.... I could double-check our database again. What's worse news, though, is how long it took to adjudicate. That's one lesson from that story.
However, here's some good news: A group of researchers from around the world got together and said they don't want people like Jonathan Pruitt to do any more collateral damage than they already have. This led to a lot of retractions, but also to protection for the researchers who were victims of Jonathan Pruitt.
I think all of these stories are complex. I am frequently asked, “What about this field? What about that field? What about this country?” I say that, if there are fewer retractions, it's because people aren't looking. I trust things when I see more retractions. Maybe that's easy for me to say, given my work, but I actually think that's an important way to think about it.