misconduct

Alzheimer’s scientist indicted for allegedly falsifying data in $16M scheme A federal grand jury has indicted an embattled Alzheimer's researcher for allegedly falsifying data to fraudulently obtain $16 million in federal research funding from the National Institutes of Health for the...

Kjell Asplund, MD and professor emeritus at Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine has published the book Fuskarna - (My translation of title: The cheaters. On Macchiarini and other's betrayal of science) It's about several research misconducts, both in Sweden and internationally. He...

When is lack of scientific integrity a reason for retracting a paper? A case study. Abstract: This editorial has just come out in the Journal of Psychosomatic Research. It is a discussion of issues that arose from this 2004 publication: This study is a triple-blinded randomised controlled...

I found this and thought it might be a useful reference. https://www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/policy-and-analysis/reports/Documents/2019/the-concordat-to-support-research-integrity.pdf Long document but here are a few exerpts: Found the document here...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-51528800 “A doctor who worked at the same private healthcare firm as rogue breast surgeon Ian Paterson has been suspended, it has emerged. Spire Healthcare said Mike Walsh - a specialist in trauma and orthopaedic surgery - was suspended in April 2018 over...

The limitations of retraction notices and the heroic acts of authors who correct the scholarly record: An analysis of retractions of papers published from 1975 to 2019 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/leap.1282 https://sci-hub.tw/10.1002/leap.1282

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/923234?nlid=133271_3901&src=wnl_newsalrt_191230_MSCPEDIT&uac=302719CG&impID=2228388&faf=1 and it gets even worse...

I thought some folks would be interested in the work of Elizabeth Bik who is a microbiome researcher now investigating research integrity & misconduct. She has found between 4-6% of biomedical papers have image duplication. Some are honest mistakes, others are blatant image manipulation...

‘We badly need to change processes’: How ‘slow, opaque and inconsistent’ journals’ responses to misconduct can be.

www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02241-z

The Stanford Daily: Stanford Medicine professor fired for violating University rules of conduct https://www.stanforddaily.com/2019/06/03/stanford-medicine-professor-fired-for-violating-university-rules-of-conduct/ by Elena Shao — June 3, 2019 Jose Montoya, previously a professor at the...

Epigram: Senior Bristol researcher resigns after admitting to research misconduct A researcher at the University of Bristol’s school of molecular and cellular medicine resigned this summer after investigations were started into allegations of ‘fabricating data’ and bullying in the lab.

https://amp.theguardian.com/education/2018/jul/11/we-need-more-investigations-into-research-misconduct

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05145-6?utm

https://forbetterscience.com/2017/10/30/swedish-central-ethics-review-board-finds-macchiarini-guilty-of-misconduct-requests-retraction-of-6-papers/ Reminder: 2 of the 6 articles were published in The Lancet (who published The PACE trial main paper)