Shane Mayack, a former postdoctoral researcher at the Joslin Diabetes Center, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts engaged in research misconduct by duplicating figures in a pair of publications and poaching figures from other sources according to the US Office of Research Integrity (ORI), which investigates fraud in federally funded research. Continue reading
Tag Archives: research integrity
You know that pesticides link to Parkinson’s? Never mind…
Parkinson’s Researcher Fabricated Data – Neuroscientist Mona Thiruchelvam agrees to retract two studies linking neurodegeneration to pesticides. Continue reading
Posted in Atrazine, Chemophobia, Health, Pesticides
Wellcome Trust to Crack Down on Paper-Sharing Slackers
The United Kingdom’s Wellcome Trust is putting more teeth into a requirement that grantees make their published papers freely available to the public. In an announcement today, the Wellcome said it will begin taking specific steps to sanction researchers who fail to comply with the sharing policy. Continue reading
Posted in Methodology
Tagged research access, research funding, research integrity
As public funding lessens, corporate support of university agricultural research draws worries
The gap between federal support for agricultural research at large public universities and private investment continues to grow — and the divide comes with increased threats to academic freedom and more instances of meddling in the lab, a new research report suggests. Continue reading
Maurizio Morabito: A History Of Scientific Uncertainties (on their way to policymaking oblivion)
I know this story well about climate science. I am pretty sure it happens all the time in every scientific field that has social implications. Continue reading
Roger Pielke Jr.: Questionable Research Practices: The “Steroids of Scientific Competition”
A new research paper just out in the journal Psychological Science by John et al. seeks to quantify the incidence of what are called “questionable research practices” in psychological research. Continue reading
At Last, The Right Lesson From Climategate Fiasco
A diverse group of academic research scientists from across the U.S. have written a policy paper which has been published in the journal Science, suggesting that the time has come for all science journals to begin requiring computer source code be made available as a condition of publication. Currently, they say, only three of the top twenty journals do so. Continue reading
