CLNR425 Week 13: Ethics and Clinical research Scientific Misconduct Slides
Research Misconduct
"...fabrication, falsification or plagiarism in proposing, performing or reviewing research or in reporting research results."
Good Science
- Good methodology or experimental design - Mentoring of students/technicians - Meticulous recording of data - Appropriate statistical analysis - Reporting of results - Reviewed and replicated by peers
Error or Carelessness
- Misinterpretation of data - Poor recording of data - Calculation errors - Not checking chemical labels - Miscalculations of amounts of solutions - Carelessness can rise to recklessness
Bad Science
- Poor design, inappropriate experimental methodology - Use of bad materials, tainted biologicals - Poor scientific assumptions - Use of wrong statistical methodology - Keeping poor research records
Albert Einstein
- The right to search for truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be true. - Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character
Integrity
Code of values/incorruptible
Scientific Misconduct
Fabrication, falsification or plagiarism in proposing, performing or reviewing research or in reporting results
Compliance
Is rules driven, there are laws and regulations that must be followed
Integrity
More than following the rules: it includes setting standards and expectations of excellence in research & scholarship
Ethical
Relating to accepted and especially professional standards
Moral
Relating to principles of right and wrong
True or False: Research misconduct does not include honest error or differences of opinion.
True
True or False: Scientific Misconduct does not include honest error or differences in interpretations or judgments or differences of opinion
True
True or False: Scientific integrity is the highest form of compliance
True
Fabrication
is making up data or results and recording or reporting them
Falsification
is manipulating research materials, equipment, or processes, or changing or omitting data or results such that the research is not accurately represented in the research record
Plagiarism
is the appropriation of another person's ideas, processes, results, or words without giving appropriate credit
A Finding of Research Misconduct
• A significant departure from accepted practices of the relevant community • The misconduct be committed: - Intentionally - Knowingly - Recklessly • The allegation be proven by a preponderance of the evidence