{"id":12748,"date":"2019-06-19T15:49:41","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T14:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=12748"},"modified":"2019-06-19T16:12:39","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T15:12:39","slug":"scientific-misconduct-deserves-more-attention-and-better-research-committees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2019\/06\/scientific-misconduct-deserves-more-attention-and-better-research-committees\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientific misconduct deserves more attention and better research committees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Misconduct is ever increasing with the increasing science industry.\u00a0The spectrum of misconduct is large &#8211; as I explained some years ago with an extended version of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2006\/08\/revised-nylenna-simonsen-misconduct-diagram\/\">N-S-C Diagram<\/a>. Unfortunately, protection of whistleblowers as well as quality of university investigations remain low (or are even suppressed for various reasons). This is also the view of a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-019-01884-2?error=cookies_not_supported&amp;code=73791747-9afd-4101-963a-c44122a01131\">Nature editorial<\/a> &#8220;What Universities could learn from one of the biggest science&#8217;s fraud&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>university investigations into research misconduct are often inadequate, opaque and poorly conducted. They challenge the idea that institutions can police themselves on research integrity and propose that there should be independent organizations to evaluate allegations of research fraud should.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I agree.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Too many research-misconduct investigations turn out to be inadequate or flawed, says Gunsalus, who had a hand in creating a 26-point checklist that university officials can use to guide probes into research misconduct, which Grey\u2019s team used to rate the investigations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jama\/article-abstract\/2675025?utm_campaign=articlePDF&amp;utm_medium=articlePDFlink&amp;utm_source=articlePDF&amp;utm_content=jama.2018.0358\">2018 JAMA<\/a> links to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/jvp180008supp1_prod.pdf\">checklist<\/a>\u00a0while the rights seems to be with the <a href=\"https:\/\/ethicscenter.csl.illinois.edu\">National Center for Professional &amp; Research Ethics<\/a> that has many more resources.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 13.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Misconduct is ever increasing with the increasing science industry.\u00a0The spectrum of misconduct is large &#8211; as I explained some years ago with an extended version of the N-S-C Diagram. Unfortunately, protection of whistleblowers as well as quality of university investigations remain low (or are even suppressed for various reasons). This is also the view of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2019\/06\/scientific-misconduct-deserves-more-attention-and-better-research-committees\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Scientific misconduct deserves more attention and better research committees<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[96],"class_list":["post-12748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy-of-science","tag-misconduct"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12748"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12758,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12748\/revisions\/12758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}