Unreliable data may result from honest error or
from research misconduct.
U.S. National Science Foundation Office of the Inspector General: Stories
from the research misconduct files Presenter: James Kroll, National Science Foundation, USA
He stressed that this study looks at only a small part of the full financial loss
from research misconduct.
Repercussions
from research misconduct can take various forms: journal retractions, scientific ostracism, barred access to funding, and job loss.
Not exact matches
A recent report
from the Pew
Research Center, conducted before 2017's wave of sexual
misconduct allegations, notes that employed women are five times more likely than employed men to say they've earned less for doing the same job.
But,
research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) shows that this sort of misconduct has most often been carried out by fighters who viewed the enemy as racially different from themselves and used images of the hunt to describe their
research funded by the Economic and Social
Research Council (ESRC) shows that this sort of misconduct has most often been carried out by fighters who viewed the enemy as racially different from themselves and used images of the hunt to describe their
Research Council (ESRC) shows that this sort of
misconduct has most often been carried out by fighters who viewed the enemy as racially different
from themselves and used images of the hunt to describe their actions.
► «The involvement of [online communities in discussions about suspect publications and possible
research misconduct] has made the standardization of processes to address allegations more complex and has led to less patience
from the scientific community and the public with what are often long timelines in institutional
misconduct investigations,» Science journals Editor - in - Chief Marcia McNutt wrote in an editorial in this week's issue of Science.
In a twist on the typical scientific ethics discussion, the IOM report and companion meeting shifted the spotlight
from a negative perspective — preventing scientific
misconduct — to the more positive one of encouraging ethical
research practices.
Under federal regulations, universities and
research institutions are required to look into every
misconduct allegation that comes to them, regardless of how substantial (or insubstantial) it seems at first glance and regardless of where the allegation comes
from.
According to Chris B. Pascal, director of the U.S. Office of
Research Integrity, Wellcome's definition of what constitutes
misconduct — including «deliberate, dangerous or negligent deviations
from accepted practices» — «is considerably broader» than the OSTP's definition.
• Those who think the toll of scientific
misconduct is limited to science should read a paper in the European Heart Journal (EHJ) that claims that tainted
research from the labs of Don Poldermans, the «disgraced cardiologist who was at Erasmus MC in the Netherlands, may have led to the deaths of» as many as 800,000 people in Europe.
The country's roughly 5,300 home - grown journals have been a receptacle for much of the
research that has resulted
from misconduct.
China's roughly 5,300 home - grown journals have been a receptacle for much of the nation's
research that has resulted
from misconduct
The company said it learned about «
misconduct at a contract
research organization (CRO) facility in Houston»
from the FDA and that it cooperated with investigations by the FDA and its European counterpart.
Han's fate can be traced to the attention he received
from U.S. Senator Charles Grassley (R - IA), who has a long history of investigating
research misconduct.
Getting these issues wrong can lead to consequences ranging
from poor communication to disputes with mentors and colleagues and, beyond that, to accusations of
research misconduct and legal trouble.
Following complaints
from a biosolids company, an EPA official used agency letterhead to spread allegations of
research misconduct against Lewis, a situation that Lewis says led to him being forced out in 2003.
I'm used to the idea that scientists aren't all angels, having reported on
research misconduct in the past,
from image doctoring to wholesale data fabrication.
Hauser, who resigned
from his Harvard faculty position in 2011 after an internal investigation found him responsible for
research misconduct, wrote in a statement that although he has «fundamental differences» with some of the new report's findings, «I acknowledge that I made mistakes.»
NASA chief Charles Bolden is reviewing a request
from a U.S. senator for a briefing on alleged
misconduct at the agency's Ames
Research Center (ARC) in California.
Rather than rely just on retraction notices
from journals — which in some cases they couldn't access without paying a fee, Casadevall says — they cross-referenced as many retractions as they could with other sources, including reports
from the U.S. Office of
Research Integrity (ORI), which investigates scientific
misconduct.
But the report notes that co-authors Teruhiko Wakayama, a former RIKEN researcher now at the University of Yamanashi in Kofu, and Yoshiki Sasai, of RIKEN CDB, who worked with Obokata to finalize the
research, «allowed the papers to be submitted to Nature without verifying the accuracy of the data, and they bear heavy responsibility for the
research misconduct that resulted
from this failure on their part.»
The Ospedale San Raffaele
Research Integrity Office commits to vigorously investigating, and if warranted pursuing any credible allegation of research misconduct, while also protecting its community from unsubstantiated allegations of research mis
Research Integrity Office commits to vigorously investigating, and if warranted pursuing any credible allegation of
research misconduct, while also protecting its community from unsubstantiated allegations of research mis
research misconduct, while also protecting its community
from unsubstantiated allegations of
research mis
research misconduct.
Research misconduct is a breach of Ospedale San Raffaele standards and of those expected from its funders and sponsors, a betrayal of the trust placed in Ospedale San Raffaele by the public, and the failure to comply with the high expectations of the scholarly community for research integrity and accurate and experimentally - supported commun
Research misconduct is a breach of Ospedale San Raffaele standards and of those expected
from its funders and sponsors, a betrayal of the trust placed in Ospedale San Raffaele by the public, and the failure to comply with the high expectations of the scholarly community for
research integrity and accurate and experimentally - supported commun
research integrity and accurate and experimentally - supported communication.
The view
from Norway Presenter: Torkild Vinther, National Commission for the Investigation of
Research Misconduct, Norway
Research misconduct: Suggested remedies
from a psychiatrist's perspective Presenter: Donald S. Kornfeld, Columbia University Medical Center, USA
The charge of the newly established
Research Integrity Office (RIO) is to ensure the quality, trustworthiness and reproducibility of our research by upholding high standards of integrity and quality in science, and vigorously pursuing all substantiated allegations of research misconduct while protecting our community from unsubstantiat
Research Integrity Office (RIO) is to ensure the quality, trustworthiness and reproducibility of our
research by upholding high standards of integrity and quality in science, and vigorously pursuing all substantiated allegations of research misconduct while protecting our community from unsubstantiat
research by upholding high standards of integrity and quality in science, and vigorously pursuing all substantiated allegations of
research misconduct while protecting our community from unsubstantiat
research misconduct while protecting our community
from unsubstantiated ones.
The National Science Foundation has found no evidence of
research misconduct by Michael Mann, the Pennsylvania State University climatologist who has faced waves of attacks
from foes of action to curb greenhouse gases.
It is also clear that the original widely publicised complaint to the NHMRC and AHPRA alleging professional and
research misconduct, was done for precisely the same reasons by those within public health and wind industry circles in Australia who were unhappy with the attention the issue of health damage
from wind turbine noise was attracting.
It states: «Allegations of deviations
from this Code and of
misconduct in
research will be made
from time to time.
Regardless of whether Mann's participation in Jones» deletion enterprise constituted
research misconduct or not, this particular finding of the Inquiry Committee clearly does not follow
from the information that they presented in their record.
I wrote that in my view Bronk Ramsey had followed a defensible approach (since his results flow
from applying Bayes» theorem using that prior), so there was no
research misconduct involved, but that his method did not represent best scientific inference.
The climate scientist Michael Mann, who has been under relentless attack
from sceptics since the exposure of emails at East Anglia's Climatic
Research Unit, was cleared of research misconduct by a university investigation ye
Research Unit, was cleared of
research misconduct by a university investigation ye
research misconduct by a university investigation yesterday.
Here's a fairly typical (if narrow) definition of scientific
misconduct, taken
from the US DHSS Office of
Research Integrity's (ORI) website, as is the second quotation below).
The important point
from the report to me is this --[quote] At the time of initiation of the inquiry, and in the ensuing days during the inquiry, no formal allegations accusing Dr. Mann of
research misconduct were submitted to any University official.
HAMALENGWA — Findings of Professional
Misconduct — While representing a difficult client who was charged with first degree murder, the Lawyer was eligible to bill the Ministry of the Attorney General for fees and disbursements pursuant to a Fisher order — The Lawyer's accounting, billing and docketing systems were deplorable and bore no relationship to his billings to the Ministry — The Lawyer engaged in professional misconduct by billing the Ministry for attendances at court when he had not attended or attended for less time than he claimed; overbilling for legal research; billing for services that were not properly billable as legal services; overbilling for student assistance disbursements he had not incurred; overbilling for fees and disbursements that were not fair and reasonable; and submitting a document to the Ministry purporting to be an invoice from a student working under his direction when the invoice was not prepared by the student and the services were not rendered as described in the
Misconduct — While representing a difficult client who was charged with first degree murder, the Lawyer was eligible to bill the Ministry of the Attorney General for fees and disbursements pursuant to a Fisher order — The Lawyer's accounting, billing and docketing systems were deplorable and bore no relationship to his billings to the Ministry — The Lawyer engaged in professional
misconduct by billing the Ministry for attendances at court when he had not attended or attended for less time than he claimed; overbilling for legal research; billing for services that were not properly billable as legal services; overbilling for student assistance disbursements he had not incurred; overbilling for fees and disbursements that were not fair and reasonable; and submitting a document to the Ministry purporting to be an invoice from a student working under his direction when the invoice was not prepared by the student and the services were not rendered as described in the
misconduct by billing the Ministry for attendances at court when he had not attended or attended for less time than he claimed; overbilling for legal
research; billing for services that were not properly billable as legal services; overbilling for student assistance disbursements he had not incurred; overbilling for fees and disbursements that were not fair and reasonable; and submitting a document to the Ministry purporting to be an invoice
from a student working under his direction when the invoice was not prepared by the student and the services were not rendered as described in the document.
Nutrition expert and blogger Bill Shrapnel wrote about the news that Professor Jennie Brand - Miller
from the University of Sydney and Dr Alan Barclay, Chief Scientific Officer at the Glycaemic Index Foundation and Head of
Research at the Australian Diabetes Council have been cleared by the University of Sydney of research misconduct alle
Research at the Australian Diabetes Council have been cleared by the University of Sydney of
research misconduct alle
research misconduct allegations.