The Lucifer effect
…learn to become good or evel regardless of our genetic inheritance, personality, or familiy legacy. Here is where Zimbardo meets to some extent the science misconduct debate as this is…
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Value replicability not journal impact
There is an excellent comment on research misconduct at the brand new Pubmed Commons site by Dorothy Bishop: … Instead of valuing papers in top journals, we should be valuing…
When a scientific journal is modifying your images
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Non-fake journals can be recognized
according to https://oaspa.org/principles-of-transparency-and-best-practice-in-scholarly-publishing/ by 1. Peer review process 2. Governing Body 3. Editorial team/contact information 4. Author fees 5. Copyright 6. Identification of and dealing with allegations of research misconduct…
Deep fake image fraud
…demonstrated this possibility by using GAN to fabricate several different types of biomedical images and discuss possible ways for the detection and prevention of such scientific misconducts in research communities….
Act locally, think globally
…is connected to ‘virtues’ and ‘institution’ in Italian documents … Furthermore, the theme ‘misconduct’ co-occurs most frequently with the theme ‘repression’ in British documents, with ‘institution’ and ‘science’ in the…
About the psychology of scientists
It is my impression that most of the scientific misconduct cases are not the result of intentional fraud (with some exceptions) but self deception, poor education, indifferent handling of facts…
Price of poor research can surpass $5,000,000
A recent article in Nature Medicine finds that the price of misconduct probes can surpass $500,000. Sure, that may be expensive Researchers at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo,…
inherently dishonest people
…their work than formal training in research integrity. Research integrity is an ever expanding field The few empirical articles that examined determinants of misconduct found that problems from the research…
6 sigma (TM)
No, this is not a post about another case of scientific misconduct (the sigma factor in transcription initiation published in Cell last October) but about Six Sigma, a process developed…
Endlich keine Straffreiheit mehr bei Wissenschaftsbetrug
Diskutiert wird es schon lange: Soll Wissenschaftsbetrug weiterhin straffrei bleiben? Friedhelm Hermann, einer der grössten Fälscher der jüngeren Geschichte, kam mit einer lächerlich kleinen Auflage aus dem Verfahren und konnte…
Der chinesische Menschenversuch
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What is a predatory journal?
Nature reports a new definition for predatory journals Predatory journals and publishers are entities that prioritize self-interest at the expense of scholarship and are characterized by false or misleading information,…
Wissenschaftsbetrug und soziale Akzeptanz
Mag sein, daß es immer mehr Wissenschaftsbetrug gibt. Es kann aber auch sein, daß nur das Bewusstsein geschärft ist. Es würde mich jedenfalls nicht wundern, daß der erhöhte Leistungsdruck statt…
Déjà vu extended
Given my interest in strange phenomena leading to science misperception I wonder why I didn’t find this site earlier as it tells you also everything about Déjà Vu, Déjà Vécu,…