Fallout from scientific misconduct can be pervasive. From the broadest perspective, the public, current and future patients, funding agencies, and even the course of research may be adversely affected by scientific misconduct. At the local level. members of the perpetrator’s laboratory, colleagues, trainees, and the financial resources and reputation of the home institution may become tainted. ...

OBJECTIVE To examine how disciplinary tribunals assess different forms of misconduct in deciding whether to remove doctors from practice for professional misconduct. DESIGN AND SETTING Multivariable regression analysis of 485 cases in which tribunals found doctors guilty of professional misconduct. The cases came from four Australian states (New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and Western A...

BACKGROUND Little is known about the institutional behaviour of incarcerated sex offenders. AIM To study the relationships between juvenile sex offending, thought psychopathology and institutional misconduct. METHOD We applied negative binomial regression and Area Under Curve Receiver Operating Characteristic (AUC-ROC) analyses to self-report and records data from institutionalised delinque...

This study examined the utility of the Theory of Planned Behavior model, augmented by descriptive norms and justifications, for predicting self-reported research misconduct and questionable research practices in university students. A convenience sample of 205 research active Western Australian university students (47 male, 158 female, ages 18-53 years, M = 22, SD = 4.78) completed an online su...

This paper reviews current research regarding the prevalence and possible etiological factors associated with male sexual coercion, defi ned here as a class of inappropriate male behaviors in which nonphysical tactics (e.g., verbal pressure, lying, deceit, and continual arguments) are utilized to obtain sexual contact with an unwilling adult female. This form of sexual misconduct is contrasted ...

This paper documents the existence of striking regional di®erences in the reported behaviour of employees working within the same ̄rm but in di®erent Italian regions. In particular, the frequency of recorded and punished misconduct episodes is signi ̄cantly higher among employees working in the south; migrants moving from the north to the south assimilate completely to the higher rate of miscond...

The pursuit of scientific knowledge engenders both a profound sense of wonder and responsibility. As life scientists, we endeavor to discover hidden truths that will illuminate specific pathways underlying basic life or death processes, or the mechanism of action of a therapeutic intervention. But what is truth? We expect what is true in a given set of experiments to be self-evident in our publ...