Science builds upon science: Publications as building blocks
Most scientists are honest and hard-working
Scientists are biased
Scientific studies often not reproducible
Errors in statistics and models
Sloppy research
Science misconduct
Articles:
Why do scientists make errors, intentionally via alsification…
Publish or Perish cartoon “Welcome to the team. Remember if you follow the university motto, you’ll do fine….
Self plagiarism - text recycling - does not fall under definition
Research misconduct does not equal honest errors or differences of opinion
Office of Research Integrity
Cartoon: I need you to do a presentation on the topic of “plagiarism”. You dont have any time for it, so just steal something off the internet
Used text from at least 10 source papers. Author has 343 publications (113 reviews) - paper was retracted
At least 43 source documents were used that were NOT listed in the Referenes. Last author of this paper was the Senior Associate Editor at this journal. Paper was retracted.
Personal project:
Exceptions for definitions
Talking about complete paragraphs just copy pasted
Claimed 12 in a row kids with measles vaccination had immediate autistic issues.
Paper retracted
Falsified the results of colonoscopy to say colitis
This is the source of the whole anti-vaccine movement
Claimed treating any cell with acid, can turn them back into stem cells.
Paper in nature
Immediately people started talking about this
Retracted within months
Found photos flipped and rotated
She was allowed to work under video, she was never able to replicate her research,
Her mentor hanged himself in a stairway of the institute, eventhough he was never suspected of involvement of the misconduct.
“Coping with Chaos: How disordered contexts promote stereotyping and discrimination”
Most of data fabricated.
Site: RetractionWatch - he is #4
“The prevalence of Inappropriate Image Duplication in Biomedical Research Publications”
Found:
“These look very similar to me”. Stops short of an accusation
Even worse, image photoshopped
All examples found, the papers got retracted.
Example of an overlap - several in the slide
30 panels
A dozen overlaps
Weird excuses
Articles:
Predatory publishers
Contents
Examples:
Hard for lay person to know which ones are red flagged. But an example is time between submission and published:
You can not republish after publishing in a predator. You can only publish once.
Decoupling IPv4 from 802.11B in Reinforcement Learning
South Korean plant compound research faked email addressed so he could review his own studies
Peer reviewed scientific journals with people with impressive affiliations, but they never worked at their institutions, or the institutions didnt exist
Examples of fakery: