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- A tale of two citations
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Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-02-07 15:58
- Collaborations: Investigating international misconduct
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Authors: Boesz, Christine ; Lloyd, Nigel
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Nature
Abstract: The article presents a commentary about cross-border collaborations regarding research misconduct. It focuses on the issues surrounding the cross-border collaboration and the unethical behaviors of scientists which is getting harder...
Year: 2008
DOI: 10.1038/452686aBiblio - KBL781 - 2011-02-07 15:55
- The integrity of the scientific literature.
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Authors: Stewart, WW ; Feder, N
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Nature
Abstract: A case of admitted scientific fraud has shed new light on the system that ensures the integrity of the scientific literature. Certain lapses from generally accepted standards of research may be more frequent than is commonly believe...
Year: 1987
URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=3808019Biblio - KBL781 - 2009-09-14 13:31
- Misconduct : The Stars Who Fell to Earth
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Authors: Dalton, Rex
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Nature
Abstract: Reports on cases of scientific fraud in 2002. Scientist Jan Hendrik Schon's falsification of data in research papers published in the periodicals 'Nature' and 'Science'; Physicist Viktor Ninov's fabrication of data to create heavy e...
Year: 2002
URL: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v420/n6917/full/420728a.html
DOI: 10.1038/420728aBiblio - KBL781 - 2011-08-01 16:49
- The ethics of research on great apes
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Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-02-07 15:58
- The ethics of research on great apes
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Authors: Gagneux, Pascal ; Moore, James J. ; Varki, Ajit
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Nature
Abstract: Considers the ethical and scientific challenges for scientists who work on captive great apes in the wake of the chimpanzee genome publication. ...
Year: 2005
DOI: 10.1038/437027aBiblio - KBL781 - 2010-04-27 16:17
- Tie funding to research integrity
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Authors: Titus, Sandra L. ; Bosch, Xavier
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Nature
Abstract: Discusses how ongoing efforts to help prevent misconduct in research have failed, and the results of six different studies showing the the overall level of misconduct in science is extremely high, threatening to erode scientific int...
Year: 2010
DOI: 10.1038/466436aBiblio - Anonymous - 2010-08-16 09:47
- Peers nip misconduct in the bud
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Authors: Koocher, Gerald P. ; Keith-Spiegel, Patricia
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Nature
Abstract: A new survey has found that informal intervention, where one scientist intervenes when they see an unethical act being done by a colleague, has a high rate of success. The authors conducted an online survey asking investigators fund...
Year: 2010
DOI: 10.1038/466438aBiblio - Anonymous - 2010-08-16 10:34
- Peer review: Trial by Twitter
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Authors: Mandavilli, Apoorva
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Nature
Abstract: The article discusses the impact of online social networks on scientific publications worldwide. It highlights a study which claimed that it determined the solution to predict human longevity with accuracy of 77% and the criticisms ...
Year: 2011
DOI: 10.1038/469286aBiblio - KBL781 - 2011-02-07 16:04
- Military research: The Pentagon's culture wars
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Authors: Weinberger, Sharon
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Nature
Abstract: The article examines the Human Terrain System program of the U.S. Department of Defense, which aims to provide social science support to the U.S. in the form of ethnographic and social research, cultural information research and soc...
Year: 2008
DOI: 10.1038/455583aBiblio - KBL781 - 2011-02-07 16:10
- The ethical regulation of science
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Authors: Warnock, Mary
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Nature
Abstract: An essay is presented on ethical issue of science in Great Britain. He discusses the case of in vitro fertilization (IVF) and embryonic research, in which the government has set up a committee to examine the social and ethical impli...
Year: 2007
DOI: 10.1038/450615aBiblio - KBL781 - 2011-02-07 16:10
- Self-plagiarism case prompts calls for agencies to tighten rules
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Authors: Samuel Reich, Eugenie
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Nature
Abstract: The article reports on the controversy involved by Professor Reginald Smith of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario due to the discovery of plagiarism in some of his works. It states that the incident triggered the Natural Scienc...
Year: 2010
DOI: 10.1038/468745aBiblio - KBL781 - 2011-02-07 16:08
- Bioethics: Dial ‘E’ for ethics
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Authors: Pilcher, Helen
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Nature
Abstract: The article reports on Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics' dial-an-ethicist project, a bench-side consultation service for biomedical researchers. It further reports that the service is designed to help researchers identify the e...
Year: 2006
DOI: 10.1038/4401104aBiblio - KBL781 - 2011-02-07 16:07
- Ethical and social considerations of stem cell research
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Authors: McLaren, Anne
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Nature
Abstract: Discusses the ethical, moral and social considerations in stem cell research. Ethics of the destructive harvesting of stem cells from human embryo; Moral value of embryos donated for research; Possibility for stem cell research to f...
Year: 2001
DOI: 10.1038/35102194Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-02-07 16:05
- Warning flag for ethics boards
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Authors: Giles, Jim
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Nature
Abstract: The article features how the institutional review boards make very different decisions on ethical issues. According to Joan Sieber, a psychologist at California State University one cannot expect that all boards would take similar d...
Year: 2006
DOI: 10.1038/443127aBiblio - KBL781 - 2011-02-07 15:59
- Ethics can boost science
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Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Nature
Abstract: Asserts that a report from a European ethics committee gives a valuable summary of the issues surrounding stem-cell research. Conclusion of the committee that the creation of embryos by somatic-cell nuclear transfer for research on ...
Year: 2000
DOI: 10.1038/35042706Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-02-07 15:53
- Ethicists urge caution over emotive power of brain scans
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Authors: Check, Erika
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Nature
Abstract: The article reports that a bioethicist at the University of Pennsylvania, Paul Root Wolpe found himself confronted by angry members of the public during the debate over the fate of brain-damaged patient Terri Schiavo earlier this ye...
Year: 2005
DOI: 10.1038/435254aBiblio - KBL781 - 2011-02-07 15:55
- Ethics and fraud
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Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Nature
Abstract: The article determines the steps to be taken for scientists to secure standards in both the ethics and conduct of research. The need to acknowledge that sound ethics and good research practice go hand in hand. Leadership of the scie...
Year: 2006
DOI: 10.1038/439117aBiblio - KBL781 - 2011-02-07 15:53
- Science and ethics must not be separated
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Authors: Copland, Paul
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Nature
Abstract: Comments on the article previously published in the 'Nature' journal about ethics and science. Requirement to be consistent and empirically justified in interpreting the actions of scientists; Reactions of non-specialist observers t...
Year: 2003
DOI: 10.1038/425121aBiblio - KBL781 - 2011-02-07 15:56
- E-mails spark ethics row
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Authors: Dalton, Rex
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Nature
Abstract: The article reports on the dispute between biologist and faculty member Tyrone Hayes of the University of California, Berkeley and herbicide atrazine producer Sygenta. It says that the dispute started when Hayes' researches on atraz...
Year: 2010
DOI: 10.1038/466913aBiblio - KBL781 - 2011-02-07 15:56
- Handling (mis?)appropriated data
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Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Nature
Abstract: Offers suggestions to solve the problem of giving credit for unpublished data. Problems caused in the genome-sequencing community by posting unpublished data in publicly accessible databases; Importance of licensing agreements, to p...
Year: 2001Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-02-07 15:53
- The ethics of egg manipulation
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Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Nature
Abstract: The article offers information about a cell research which opens debate concerning the naturality of embryo destruction and egg donation. It mentions that the study offers a new technique which involves taking the nuclear DNA from o...
Year: 2009
DOI: 10.1038/4601057aBiblio - KBL781 - 2011-02-07 15:54
- Security ethics
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Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Nature
Abstract: The article reports that computer-security researcher Karsten Nohl has found a vulnerability in the algorithm used to prevent eavesdropping in most mobile telephone standard in Berlin, Germany. It suggests that the discovery would m...
Year: 2010
URL: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v463/n7278/full/463136a.html
DOI: 10.1038/463136aBiblio - KBL781 - 2011-02-07 15:54
- Researcher suspended for falsifying data
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Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Nature
Abstract: The article reports that post doctoral fellow Kristin Roovers has been suspended by the Ottawa Health Research Institute after learning that she had manipulated and falsified data published in several papers in the United States. In...
Year: 2008
DOI: 10.1038/453969dBiblio - KBL781 - 2011-08-01 16:43
- Dubious data remain in print two years after misconduct inquiry
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Authors: Abbott, Alison ; Schwarz, Johanna
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Nature
Abstract: Reports on investigation into misconduct in German cancer research. Names of the cancer researchers being investigated; Extent of the fabrication in the German cancer research papers; Findings of the task force involved in the inqui...
Year: 2002
DOI: 10.1038/418113aBiblio - KBL781 - 2011-08-01 16:43
