Academia's ‘misconduct’ is acceptable to industry

Text recycling: acceptable or misconduct?

Text recycling, also referred to as self-plagiarism, is the reproduction of an author's own text from a previous publication in a new publication. Opinions on the acceptability of this practice vary, with some viewing it as acceptable and efficient, and others as misleading and unacceptable. In light of the lack of consensus, journal editors often have difficulty deciding how to act upon the di...

Scientific misconduct, the pharmaceutical industry, and the tragedy of institutions.

This paper examines how current legislative and regulatory models do not adequately govern the pharmaceutical industry towards ethical scientific conduct. In the context of a highly profit-driven industry, governments need to ensure ethical and legal standards are not only in place for companies but that they are enforceable. We demonstrate with examples from both industrialized and developing ...

Tobacco industry consumer research on socially acceptable cigarettes.

OBJECTIVE To describe tobacco industry consumer research to inform the development of more "socially acceptable" cigarette products since the 1970s. METHODS Analysis of previously secret tobacco industry documents. RESULTS 28 projects to develop more socially acceptable cigarettes were identified from Philip Morris, RJ Reynolds, British American Tobacco, and Lorillard tobacco companies. Con...

Is withholding clinical trial results "research misconduct"?

Is data gathering the only acceptable approach to biological science?

parasites of lizards has recently become the subject of sectional interests. In the absence of any objective criteria for classifying the group, two nomenclatures have come into current usage. Workers with interests in the natural history of the lizard parasites have emphasized the features that distinguish lizard and mammalian parasites and have tended to give the lizard parasites generic rank...