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Janet D. Stemwedel (whose nom de blog is Dr. Free-Ride) is an associate professor of philosophy at San Jose State University. Before becoming a philosopher, she earned a Ph.D. in physical chemistry. Email her at dr.freeride@gmail.com.

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Academic integrity:

In search of accepted practices: the final report on the investigation of Michael Mann (part 3).

Category: Academic integrity

When the evidence available to you is limited, it's probably better to draw the weak conclusion is supports rather than an overly strong one.

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In search of accepted practices: the final report on the investigation of Michael Mann (part 2).

Category: Academic integrity

When you're investigating charges that a scientist has seriously deviated from accepted practices for proposing, conducting, or reporting research, how do you establish what the accepted practices are? In the wake of ClimateGate, this was the task facing the Investigatory...

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In search of accepted practices: the final report on the investigation of Michael Mann (part 1).

Category: Academic integrity

The ethics investigation of Michael Mann turns on what counts as accepted practices for proposing, conducting, and reporting research. How does a committee establish what those accepted practices are?

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Preventing Plagiarism.

Category: Tribe of Science

Especially in student papers, plagiarism is an issue that it seems just won't go away. However, instructors cannot just give up and permit plagiarism without giving up most of their pedagogical goals and ideals. As tempting a behavior as...

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What to do with the cheater once caught.

Category: Academic integrity

Back in December (or as we academics call it, Exam-Grading Season), esteemed commenter Ewan told us about a horrifying situation that was unfolding for him: Probably not totally relevant, but frankly I'm still in a little shock. Graded exams Friday...

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Medical ghostwriting and the role of the 'author' who acts as the sheet.

Category: Academic integrity

This week the New York Times reported on the problem of drug company-sponsored ghostwriting of articles in the scientific literature: A growing body of evidence suggests that doctors at some of the nation's top medical schools have been attaching their...

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A big pain for biomedicine: anesthesiologist commits massive research fraud.

Category: Academic integrity

The headlines bring news of another scientist (this time a physician-scientist) caught committing fraud, rather than science. This story is of interest in part because of the scale of the deception -- not a paper or two, but perhaps dozens...

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Students plagiarize, professor publicizes.

... and the university, in turn, fires the professor.

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From the annals of academic dishonesty: a bad way to fish for extra points.

As the new calendar year approaches, I can't help but anticipate the coming spring semester -- and to hold out the hope that this one will be the semester in which none of my students commits plagiarism. Otherwise, I'm facing...

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The ethics of performance enhancing drugs in academe.

In the 20/27 December 2007 issue of Nature, there's a fascinating commentary by Cambridge University neuroscientists Barbara Sahakian and Sharon Morein-Zamir. Entitled "Professor's little helper," this commentary explores, among other things, how "cognitive-enhancing drugs" are starting to find their way...

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