Is YouTube the new venue for exposing research misconduct?

“An anonymous whistleblower has created a YouTube video that details alleged duplication of images by a prominent Japanese scientist.

“The nearly 6-minute video, complete with background music, presents a series of still shots of over 60 allegedly duplicated and manipulated images in 24 papers, including 19 instances in a single publication, by a group led by molecular signaling specialist Shigeaki Kato of the University of Tokyo’s Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences. The publications go back to 2001, include numerous co-authors, and have appeared in Nature, Cell, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and other journals…

via ScienceInsider

 

27th January 2012
Ethics, Misconduct, Publishing
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Resources for Teaching Research Ethics

Beauchamp TL, Childress JF. Principles of Biomedical Ethics. Oxford Press, Oxford, (2001).

Promoting Responsible Conduct in Research through “Survival Skills” Workshops: Some Mentoring is Best Done in a Crowd. Fischer BA and Zigmond MJ. Science and Engineering Ethics, 2001, 7:4, 563-587.

Moral Reasoning in Scientific Research: Cases for Teaching and Assessment. Bebeau MJ, Pimple KD, Muskavitch KMT, Borden SL & Smith DH. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University, 1995; see www.indiana.edu/~poynter

Comstock GL. Life Sciences Ethics, Iowa State Press, 2002.

EthicShare

“A research and collaboration website designed to help you do research, share, collaborate, and participate in the field of ethics. It includes…research materials, group discussions, current news articles, and upcoming events.”

Onlineethics.org

Has a large collection of ethics cases.

The Lab Office of Research Integrity.

An extremely well done interactive video that deals with issues of research integrity. Can be viewed by students on their own or used as a stimulus for class discussion. Also see the ORI website for other resources.

Bioethics at the movies. Sapshay S (ed). Johns Hopkins University Press, (2010).

Science & Engineering Ethics

A peer-reviewed journal that publishes original research articles as well as articles on teaching research ethics.

Scientific Integrity: An Introductory Text with Cases, 3rd edition. Macrina, FL. ASM Press, 2005.

22nd January 2012
Animals, COI, Ethics, Humans, Mentoring, Misconduct, Trainers
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Top Science Scandals of 2011

“Science is no stranger to controversy. This year, some high profile scientists have been accused of widespread misconduct, while other headline-grabbing research has been retracted after technical errors or sloppy techniques were pointed out by critics.The scientific field may deal with aftershocks of the misconduct or retraction for years.

“Here are five of the biggest science scandals of the year, as well as updates on some of the juiciest scandals of years past.”

From The Scientist

22nd January 2012
Ethics, Misconduct
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