Showing posts with label fraud in scientific research. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fraud in scientific research. Show all posts
Saturday, May 13, 2023

Springer Closes Wall of Shame

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Springer Nature publishing closed the “Wall of Shame” website that recorded the retraction of medical research which failed for lack of proc...
Saturday, April 17, 2021

Amateur Astrophotography is Baloney

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“Are visual observers a dying breed?” is a topic on The Sky Searchers discussion board. It does not refer to the book  The Last Stargazers  ...
Sunday, January 1, 2017

Most Popular Pageviews

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I write this blog for myself. As a contract technical writer, I get paid to write what other people want. I enjoy it. That work is near the ...
Monday, April 18, 2016

Dishonest Scientists: Who is the Guardian?

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The "Routine Activities" theory of crime developed by Marcus Felsen and Lawrence Cohen posited a crime triangle: a willing perpet...
Monday, March 14, 2016

Convicted by a Hair: Laboratory Misconduct in the Courtroom

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Science Magazine recently posted a self-quiz on forensics ( see here ). The results are important because so many of us know so little abou...
Saturday, February 23, 2013

Science Fair Science Fraud

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With over 2500 entrants, the occurrence of misconduct is a statistical likelihood.   I served as a judge for Behavioral and Social Sciences...
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Friday, January 11, 2013

Four Books About Bad Science

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When Science Goes Wrong: Twelve Tales from the Dark Side of Discovery by Simon LeVay (Plume Penguin, 2008).   LeVay lays out his facts i...
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Friday, January 4, 2013

Criminality and Scientific Research:Why Scientists Go Wrong; and Why the Wrong People Become Scientists

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“Crime knows no neighborhood” is an axiom of criminology. In other words, every population contains members who stray from folkways, viola...
Monday, December 31, 2012

20% of Scientists are Crooks

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At university in both "Introduction to Criminology" and the "Senior Seminar in Criminolgy", our professor, Liqun Cao,...
Sunday, March 4, 2012

Science Fairs and Science Frauds

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Last month, I volunteered to judge the exhibits in “Behavioral and Social Sciences” at the Austin Energy Regional Science Festival.   After...