Several recent issues of the ISI@ newspaper ‘fle Scierrtistm12 contain articles on ethical issues in science. One is a reviewJ of a book entitfed Fake Prophets: Fraud and Error in Science and Medicine,d by virologist Alexander Kohn, Tel Aviv Medical School, Israel. Tw05,6 discuss the controversial, recently published study on coauthorship by Walter W. Stewart and Ned Feder, Nationaf Institutes ...

Research has suggested that scientific misco.nduct may be partially socialized during the undergraduate years (Keith-Spiegel, Lee, Spiegel and Zinn-Monroe, manuscript in preparation). For example, many undergraduate students believe that they will get better grades on their experimental projects if they can produce statistically "significant" results. Students also allow sympathetic situational...

Corresponding author: Younsuk Lee, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Ilsan Hospital, Dongguk University Medical Center, 814, Siksa-dong, Ilsandong-gu, Goyang 410-773, Korea. Tel: 82-31-961-7872, Fax: 82-31-961-7864, E-mail: [email protected] This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http:// cr...

Given the concerns expressed by members of the academic and legal community about whether (and how) to handle anonymous and pseudonymous allegations of scientific misconduct, this paper summaries the experiences of the Office of Research Integrity and its predecessor from 1989 through 1997. Although the record shows that research institutions and the ORI have treated such allegations seriously,...

Arguments against scientific misconduct one finds in the literature generally fail to support current policies on research fraud: they may not prove wrong what is typically considered research misconduct and they tend to make wrong things that are not usually seen as scientific fraud, in particular honest errors. I argue that society cannot set a rule enjoining scientists to be honest, so any s...