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How Andrew Wakefield’s shoddy science fueled autism-vaccine fears.
Brian Wansink won fame, funding, and influence for his science-backed advice on healthy eating. Now, emails show how the Cornell professor and his colleagues have hacked and massaged low-quality data into headline-friendly studies to “go virally big time.”
The U.S. government does not consider sexual harassment a form of scientific misconduct. Should it?
The Journal of Vibroengineering in December retracted three papers after becoming suspicious that one of the authors had convinced other researchers to cite his work.
The National Science Foundation says institutions it supports must disclose when researchers are found to have violated policies or are put on leave pending investigation.
The South Korean government is expanding an investigation into researchers who named their children as co-authors on papers.
The nearly 60,000-member American Geophysical Union took the bold step of revising its ethics policy to treat harassment, discrimination and bullying as scientific misconduct, with the same types of penalties for offenders. Other scientific organizations have not adopted that standard.
Nobel laureate Shinya Yamanaka suggested at a press conference that Kyoto University in Japan could ask him to resign over fraud committed by one of his center’s scientists.
A dispute between Australia’s major research funding agencies and universities over the definition of research misconduct has revealed global inconsistencies in the way misconduct is defined and regulated, as well as its ambiguous legal status.
In a gender discrimination lawsuit against the Salk Institute, a female scientist alleges that biologist Inder Verma was dismissive of his female colleagues.
More than just an academic problem: on the repercussions of scienctific misconduct on the careers of honest and hard-working scientists.
"Why does this story sound so darned familiar?"
My bullying supervisor damaged my mental health. But when I decided to stand up to them, I received no support from my university.
Professional isolation and stress-induced illness during a protracted investigation leave a survivor to wonder: Would keeping quiet have been the wiser choice?
Lawsuit alleges that the institution mishandled complaints about cognitive scientist Florian Jaeger.
Using a database of 750 cases of research fraud from around the world, professors examine fraud as a phenomenon, tracing its history and trajectory and looking at what can be done about it.
"…cultural change rests with individual scientists, teams, and professional societies."
Some scholars add authors to their research papers or grant proposals even when those individuals contribute nothing to the research effort.
A researcher specializing in post-traumatic stress disorder is facing jail time for allegedly embezzling tens of thousands of dollars of federal grant money.
The accusations against the Hollywood producer have prompted frank conversations about sexual misconduct. But it will still take a lot to shift how higher education treats such cases, experts say.
More than 100 educational institutions, including some of the world's most prestigious, appear linked to blocker funds and other offshore investments.
More than a dozen members of the editorial board at Scientific Reports have resigned after the journal decided not to retract a 2016 paper that a researcher claims plagiarized his work. As of this morning, 19 people — mostly researchers based at Johns Hopkins — had stepped down from the board.
ETH Zurich in Switzerland launched an investigation into allegations that a leading professor mistreated graduate students for more than a decade.
Fraudulent research and faked peer reviews have led to a humiliating setback for China's goal of becoming a global leader in scientific research.
Hany Farid discusses how to detect image manipulations — and the increasing sophistication of forgers.
Bad research just doesn’t affect the people in the area around it, the people who might spend years trying to take a dodgy result and extend it.
American Geophysical Union places harassment, bullying, and discrimination on par with falsification, fabrication, and plagiarism.
Scientists hit back at a proposal to make it tougher to call findings statistically significant.
Over the past decade, scientists or universities have used the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to get thousands of competitors' grants proposals. And many of the targeted scientists are upset.
