scientific misconduct

A Case Western Reserve University researcher is found guilty of altering the number of samples and results to inflate the statistical significance of his findings.

Male scientists commit research misconduct more often than their female peers, and senior researchers are more likely to engage in fraud than trainees.

A neurodegenerative disease researcher found guilty of fabricating results in funding applications has written an open letter of apology and clarification.

A new ethics course aims to rehabilitate scientists found guilty of misconduct so they can return to the field as productive researchers.
 

A researcher who studied neurodegenerative diseases made up results from experiments yet to take place in order to apply for more funds.

The author of a whistleblower blog has revealed his identity after the site was suspended due to legal threats from accused scientists.

Two biomedical researchers have been found guilty of falsifying data.

This year’s roundup of bad behavior in the life sciences and new initiatives to prevent misconduct

An exhaustive report about research fraud committed by social psychologist Diederik Stapel paints a picture of a field beset by sloppy practices and low standards.

A senior cardiovascular disease and diabetes researcher at the University of Kentucky has been found guilty of falsifying data over the past 10 years.

Contrary to previous studies, a new publication finds that most retractions from scholarly literature are not due to misconduct.  

An analysis of retractions dating back to 1977 shows that most papers are retracted due to misconduct.

A researcher from the John Wayne Cancer Institute has settled his scientific misconduct case with the Office of Research Integrity.

The researcher who raised questions about the studies by social psychologist Dirk Smeesters flags dodgy data from another scientist.

The ongoing saga that led to psychologist Dirk Smeesters’s resignation from the Erasmus University Rotterdam has the scientific community discussing new ways to detect data fraud.

A researchers in Japan faked patient data on nearly 200 studies over the past 2 decades, according to an investigating committee.

False credit for scientific discoveries threatens the success and pace of research.

A postdoc at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital is found guilty of falsifying his findings in a lung cancer study.

A scientist who claimed to have injected monkey embryonic stem cells into the eyes of rats to improve their vision accepts the penalty for research misconduct.

Editors at 23 scientific journals demand validation of nearly 200 studies authored by a Japanese anesthesiologist.