title: Doubts about the sodium-potassium pump are not permissible in modern bioscience.
abstract: The sodium-potassium pump--the central molecular model of the generally accepted membrane pump theory (MPT)--is a misconception, according to the alternative association-induction hypothesis (AIH) of Gilbert Ling. With a discreet fraud coupled with the practice of appraising scientific publications and grant proposals by the peer-review system, the academic establishment--inadvertently or not--hinders a general discussion and acceptance of decisive arguments of the AIH. As a result, important discoveries over many decades, as well as new ways of basic research promising success remain largely unknown. The habit of funding safe research on ideas that have a false premise persists, and the wrong theory gets ever deeper entrenched. Science suffers.
authors.affiliation: Anatomie und Zellbiologie, Universitat des Saarlandes, 66421 Homburg/Saar, Germany. ludwig.edelmann@uniklinikum-saarland.de
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Edelmann
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000191:economics / Q000941:ethics / Q000592:standards; D003469:Culture; D032984:Ethics, Research; D006801:Humans; D017712:Peer Review, Research; D012109:Research Support as Topic; D015871:Scientific Misconduct; D000254:Sodium-Potassium-Exchanging ATPase
chemical_list: D000254:Sodium-Potassium-Exchanging ATPase