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Overly Ambitious Researchers - Fabricating Data

Authors: Goldfarb, Theodore ; Pritchard, Michael S.
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Describes two real-life cases from the 1980's handling the fabrication of data. The first covers the Darsee case in which a faculty member, considered a rising star at Harvard University, fabricated data in his research on heart med...
Year: 2000
URL: http://onlineethics.org/CMS/edu/precol/scienceclass/sectone/cs1.aspx

Biblio - KBL781 - 2009-08-05 10:11

From Case Management to Prevention of Scientific Dishonesty in Denmark

Authors: Andersen, Daniel
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: In 1992, The Danish Medical Research Council established a national committee on scientific dishonesty and charged it with handling cases of scientific misconduct and developing preventnative initiatives. The article discusses the ...
Year: 2000
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-000-0019-x

Biblio - KBL781 - 2009-07-10 15:37

Research Ethics and Academic Integrity

Authors: Syracuse University, Professional Development Programs of the Graduate School
Publication Type: Audiovisual
Abstract: This is a series of seventeen short video case studies covering different areas of responsible conduct of research. The case studies are meant to help foster informal discussions about issues of academic and research integrity betw...
Year: 2002
URL: http://gradschpdprograms.syr.edu/resources/videos.php

Biblio - KBL781 - 2009-10-05 10:02

Data Selection and Retention II

Authors: Shipp, Allan C. ; Korenman, Stanley G.
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: In preparation of a progress report to her funder, a researcher instructs her graduate student to include photographs which give an impression of more success than has actually been achieved....
Year: 1994
URL: http://www.research.umn.edu/ethics/pdf/DSRA4.htm

Biblio - KBL781 - 2009-10-07 16:16

Misconduct in the Analysis and Reporting of Data: Bridging Methodological and Ethical Agendas for Change

Authors: Sterba, Sonya K.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Ethics & Behavior
Abstract: Fraudulent analysis and reporting of psychological data have the potential to contaminate the scientific knowledge base and eventuate in the unjustified expenditure of public money and scientific effort (Koocher & Keith-Spiegel, 199...
Year: 2006
URL: http://www.ethicslibrary.org/resources/210/
DOI: 10.1207/s15327019eb1604_3

Biblio - KBL781 - 2009-12-04 11:31

False, Fabricated or Misleading Data

Authors: American Sociological Association
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: A graduate student putting together slides for a presentation notices a problem with the data, and after further investigation it appears that interviewers on the project may have fabricated some of the data given on questionnaires....
Year: 2009
URL: http://www.asanet.org/ethics/detail.cfm?id=Case66

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-01-19 15:59

Data Selection and Responsible Conduct: Was Millikan a Fraud?

Authors: Jennings, Richard C.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science & Engineering Ethics
Abstract: This paper addresses a problem in reporting scientific research, especially in how to distinguish between justifiable and unjustifiable data selection. The author focuses on the case study of Robert Millikan, while historians and de...
Year: 2004
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-004-0044-2

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-04-21 11:52

Giving Scientists Their Due : The Imanishi-Kari Decision

Authors: Dresser, Rebecca
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Talks about the implications of the decision in the case of Thereza Imanishi-Kari, an immunologist who was accused of scientific misconduct in 1986, for research in the United States. Inquiry by the Department of Health and Human Se...
Year: 1997

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 15:39

Raising Suspicions with the Food and Drug Administration: Detecting Misconduct

Authors: Hamrell, Michael R.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science & Engineering Ethics
Abstract: This article describes the clinical Bioresearch Monitoring (BIMO) oversight program of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) assesses the quality and integrity of data submitted to the FDA for new product approvals and human sub...
Year: 2010
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-010-9232-4

Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-01-04 16:14

Scientific Forensics: How the Office of Research Integrity can Assist Institutional Investigations of Research Misconduct During Oversight Review

Authors: Dahlberg, John E. ; Davidian, Nancy M.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science & Engineering Ethics
Abstract: This article describes how the Division of Investigative Oversight within the U.S. Office of Research Integrity (ORI) works when conducting research into alleged cases of research misconduct. Although ORI findings rely primarily on ...
Year: 2010
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-010-9208-4

Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-01-04 16:09

Research Records and the Resolution of Misconduct Allegations at Research Universities

Authors: Wilson, Kenneth ; Schreier, Alan ; Griffin, Angel ; Resnik, David B.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Accountability in Research: Policies & Quality Assurance
Abstract: Accurate record keeping is an important part of the responsible conduct of research. However, there is very little empirical research on scientific record keeping. No one knows the incidence of serious problems with research records...
Year: 2007
DOI: 10.1080/08989620601126017

Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-01-25 18:23

The Toxicity/Safety of Processed Free Glutamic Acid (MSG): A Study in Suppression of Information

Authors: Samuels, Adrienne
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Accountability in Research: Policies & Quality Assurance
Abstract: Presents the case against the safety of processed free glutamic acid (MSG) and looks at the work of the defenders of the safety of MSG. Production of the glutamic acid in the initial Ajinomoto product; First evidence of toxicity; De...
Year: 1999
URL: http://www.truthinlabeling.org/l-manuscript.htm
DOI: 10.1080/08989629908573933

Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-01-25 18:13

How a Cancer Trial Ended in Betrayal

Authors: Chen-tzu, Ye ; University of California Davis, Departments of Pharmacology, Internal Medicine, and Biomedical Engineering
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: In this case study, students learn about the complexities and issues associated with clinical trials. After reading a newspaper story about a fraudulently conducted clinical trial involving a treatment for skin cancer, students simu...
Year: 2002
URL: http://sciencecases.lib.buffalo.edu/cs/collection/detail.asp?case_id=233&id=233

Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-02-15 11:47

Adventures in Collaborative Science: A Case Study for Performance and Discussion

Authors: Pimple, Kenneth D.
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Chris and Pat, two graduate students working on a interdisciplinary team who are studying race relations in a small rural town think that their advisor has made up quotations for an interviewee and published them in a paper....
Year: 1999
URL: http://mypage.iu.edu/~pimple/adventures.pdf

Biblio - KBL781 - 2009-08-12 13:08

Falsification, Fabrication, Plagiarism & Cheating Bibliography

Authors: Laas, Kelly ; National Academy of Engineering, Online Ethics Center
Publication Type: Web Article
Abstract: This bibliography contains references that address general falsifcation, fabrication, plagiarism, and cheating along with resources for instructors and studies of the prevalence of these behaviors....
Year: 2011
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/Resources/Bibliographies/FalsificationBib.aspx

Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-05-18 14:40

Case Study 1: Overly Ambitious Researchers - Fabricating Data

Authors: Pritchard, Michael S. ; Goldfarb, Theodore ; National Academy of Engineering, Online Ethics Center
Publication Type: Case Study
Secondary Title: Ethics in the Science Classroom
Abstract: Case Study 1 of six cases presented during a Summer Institute instructional program. Case Study 1 discusses researchers and fabrication of data through analysis of the John Darsee Case, a brilliant young medical researcher who falsi...
Year: 2007
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/Education/precollege/scienceclass/sectone/cs1.aspx

Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-05-20 12:59

How Many Scientists Fabricate and Falsify Research? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Survey Data

Authors: Fanelli, D.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Plos One
Abstract: The frequency with which scientists fabricate and falsify data, or commit other forms of scientific misconduct is a matter of controversy. Many surveys have asked scientists directly whether they have committed or know of a colleagu...
Year: 2009
URL: http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0005738

Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-08-01 16:52

MIT Terminates Researchers Over Fabrication

Authors: Couzin, Jennifer
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science
Abstract: The article reports that a rising star at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the hot field of RNA interference (RNAi) was dismissed last week after admitting that he had fabricated and falsified data in grant applica...
Year: 2005
DOI: 10.1126/science.310.5749.758a

Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-08-01 16:48

Misconduct : The Stars Who Fell to Earth

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: 10.1038/420728a

Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-08-01 16:49

Researcher suspended for falsifying data

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: 10.1038/453969d

Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-08-01 16:43

Dubious data remain in print two years after misconduct inquiry

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: 10.1038/418113a

Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-08-01 16:43

Are these data real? Statistical methods for the detection of data fabrication in clinical trials

Authors: Al-Marzouki, Sanaa ; Evans, Stephen ; Marshall, Tom ; Roberts, Ian
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: BMJ: British Medical Journal
Abstract: To test the application of statistical methods to detect data fabrication in a clinical trial, the authors looked at the baseline comparisons of means and variances of cardiovascular risk factors, digit preference overall and its pa...
Year: 2005
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.331.7511.267

Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-08-01 16:43

Falsification Charge Highlights Image-Manipulation Standards

Authors: Vogel, Gretchen
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science
Abstract: The article focuses on the falsification charge on a 2001 stem cell article by Morayma Reyes, a graduate of stem cell researcher Catherine Verfaillie's laboratory and now an assistant professor of pathology at the University of Wash...
Year: 2008
DOI: 10.1126/science.322.5900.356

Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-06-21 15:49

Scientific misconduct - EMF researcher made up data, ORI says

Authors: Vergano, Dan
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science
Abstract: In a blow to a research area hungry for credible findings, the federal Office of Research Integrity reported last month that biochemist Robert P. Liburdy "engaged in scientific misconduct ... by intentionally falsifying and fabricat...
Year: 1999
DOI: 10.1126/science.285.5424.23b

Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-06-21 15:49

Interviews

Authors: Weinberg, Robert A. ; Nichols, Eve ; Susskind, Lawrence E. ; Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research ; Fink, Gerald R.
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: While trying to replicate an experiment done by a previous postdoc,Tom, Melanie Chang finds that she is unable to replicate his results and wonders if he might have fudged the data. She approaches her supervisor with her concerns, a...
Year: 9999
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Interviews.pdf

Biblio - Anonymous - 2011-08-23 16:01