scientific ethics

Researchfish is a platform commonly used to track the status of grants and the impacts of research. When academics were critical of the company online, Researchfish shared these comments with the largest funding agency in the UK, and the scientists’ comments were sometimes shared with their employers.

More than a dozen current and former members of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy have shared details of alleged mistreatment, prompting President Biden’s top scientist to issue a formal apology.

The field of ancient DNA, which combines archaeology and anthropology with cutting-edge genetics, is requiring scientists to have frank conversations about when research is justified and who it benefits.

After a week of deliberation, a jury returned a guilty verdict on four charges related to wire fraud, each of which carries a maximum sentence of up to 20 years in prison.

Finding and reporting an irregularity in a published study can lead people down an unexpected path.

Scientists who study the marine ecosystems have frequently failed to involve local researchers in projects, a study finds.

Although scientists debate the ethics of deliberately infecting volunteers with SARS-CoV-2, plenty of consenting participants have been exposed to all sorts of pathogens in prior trials.

The company behind a now-discredited study on hydroxychloroquine also posted a report that has been cited by Latin American governments recommending ivermectin as a possible coronavirus treatment. Clinicians there say the effects have been extremely damaging.

More than five years after his arrest, Li Ning of China Agricultural University is convicted of stealing nearly $5 million of grant money.

Many preclinical studies carried out in vivo are poorly designed and generate irreproducible data, but efforts to address the problem are on the rise.

A case in which the University of Florida killed birds to protect crop research raises questions on the ethics of field studies’ potential side effects.

A recent toast to James Watson highlights a tolerance for bigotry many want excised from the scientific community.

A painting of the woman who was the source of HeLa cells will be on view at the National Portrait Gallery beginning May 15.

The physician-scientist recruited future Nobel Prize winners to build the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas into a first-rate institution. 

The Chilean government contends that the remains of a mummified fetus, recently sequenced by US researchers, were exhumed illegally.

Anne Peyroche has been acting president of the French science organization since last October.

The BMJ inquiry finds that researchers presented only select results from animal experiments when applying for funding and approval for human trials.

How to tell reputable journals from shady ones

With lifestyles similar to our hunter-gatherer ancestors, the San people of Southern Africa are popular study subjects.