I read the article that was posted on the BIOL 463 facebook page about Biomed Central and their fabricated peer reviews scandal, if it can be called a scandal. It’s really disappointing to think that these kind of things happen in science and there seems to be a lot of these kind of things happening over the last decade. This might be a very naïve viewpoint but I always thought that science should uphold integrity; I didn’t think or I didn’t have reason to think there would be any fabrication, lying, or cheating in science. Starting my third year in UBC, I realized that is not true. People, when they feel desperate enough, will do anything. It’s quite sad actually, especially the situations where people will fabricate their data so that their paper logically flows and so it can be published more quickly. Maybe I’m wrong but it does seem like these things happen because there is so much pressure to get papers out or to publish journals on time (so fabricated reviews are required). People are worried that if they don’t publish more papers, they won’t receive a post-doc position. If they don’t publish more papers after that, they may not get the chance to run their own lab. I think part of the pressure arises from the lack of funding, which I think is unfortunate. I really hope that the funding issues that researchers are having nowadays is stemmed soon or I really do think these mini-scandals will occur at much higher frequencies. I really hope funding improves so that research can continue in all fields uninhibited and people aren’t pressured to fabricate anything.