More data needed on scientific misconduct

Scientific Misconduct: More Cops, More Robbers?

Abandoning an earlier pretense that research misconduct is too rare to matter, the scientific community is trying to figure out how to minimize and police it. Could broadening the definition be the key?

Induced abortion and breast cancer: more scientific data are needed.

Despite intense study, the causes of breast cancer remain elusive (7). Reproductive factors are clearly of importance, but the nature of their influence on risk is complex and under continuous reassessment. It has been difficult to disentangle their effects because they are highly correlated and imperfect surrogates for unidentified underlying causal factors and because they are weakly related ...

Scientific Misconduct.

Scientific misconduct has been defined as fabrication, falsification, and plagiarism. Scientific misconduct has occurred throughout the history of science. The US government began to take systematic interest in such misconduct in the 1980s. Since then, a number of studies have examined how frequently individual scientists have observed scientific misconduct or were involved in it. Although the ...

Coping with scientific misconduct.

author (which had been accepted but not yet published) that also seemed to be plagiarised. However, the author’s hospital did not respond. In another of the four cases (09-11), an editor had concerns about the ethics of a trial of a homoeopathic treatment for HIV/AIDS. The editor was concerned that patients may have been denied effective antiretroviral treatment and wanted clarification about h...

Misconduct in scientific publications.