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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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Category: Current events
The New York Times has an article about a physician-scientist caught in scientific misconduct. The particular physician-scientist, Dr. Timothy R. Kuklo, was an Army surgeon working at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. He is now (for the time being anyway)...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 6:59 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Misconduct
There's an interesting article in the Telegraph by Eugenie Samuel Reich looking back at the curious case of Jan Hendrik Schön. In the late '90s and early '00s, the Bell Labs physicist was producing a string of impressive discoveries --...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 1:17 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Ethical research
Incentivizing ethical behavior, navigating power dynamics, and a miraculous plan involving three buttons.
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 8:43 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Ethical research
Meet Sean Cutler, a biology professor who argues that scientific competition doesn't have to get down and dirty.
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 5:03 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 3:45 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Current events
You may recall the case of Luk Van Parijs, the promising young associate professor of biology at MIT who was fired in October of 2005 for fabrication and falsification of data. (I wrote about the case here and here.) Making...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 12:44 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Does submitting a nearly verbatim copy of someone else's successful grant proposal strike you as the perfect crime? Maybe you're not cut out to be a criminal.
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 12:14 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Objectivity is hard work.
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 12:40 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Can you plagiarize a press release?
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 8:30 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I recently read a book by regular Adventures in Ethics and Science commenter Solomon Rivlin. Scientific Misconduct and Its Cover-Up: Diary of a Whistleblower is an account of a university response to allegations of misconduct gone horribly wrong. I'm...
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