In fact, the difference was so great that in order to get the same competence score as a man, a woman would need either to know someone on the committee, or to have published three more papers than the man in Nature or Science, the two journals with the highest impact or 20 more papers in good specialist journals.

ECONOMIST: Peer review

Both the Boston Globe and the Harvard Crimson have reported that Harvard professor of psychology Marc Hauser has decided to resign after an investigation concluded he was guilty of scientific misconduct in publishing questionable data in three papers he published in the major science journals.

FORBES: Harvard Scientist Resigns Over Misconduct