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From The Embassy of Good Science
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Embedding a comprehensive ethical dimension to organoid-based research and related technologies +
This handbook is a result of the STAR project (Support Training Activities of the data protection Reform). It aims to help trainers in delivering training on the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
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This factual case analyses the similarities and differences in history, composition and functioning of committees on scientific dishonesty in medical research in the Nordic countries of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Finland. For instance, the respective committees from these countries use different definitions of scientific dishonesty. Furthermore, eight cases of potential scientific misconduct that were brought to the committees are being discussed. +
In 2014 a sexual harassment case at Yale University came to light. The case describes how a senior cardiologist made advances to a junior cardiologist. At the time, the boyfriend of the junior cardiologist worked at the same hospital, and asserts "his career stalled after [the senior cardiologist] disparaged him and froze him out professionally". '"`UNIQ--ref-00000000-QINU`"' The case enlarged the universities' lack of response and action taken to handle harassment against women. +
In November 2014, the first author of a decade old paper in our journal and a 15-year-old paper from another journal informed us that he faked the data in two figure panels in the paper in our journal and one figure panel in the paper in the other journal. The main gist of the manipulation was loading unequal amounts or delayed loading of gel lanes.
Self-admission of data falsification is a serious charge that is difficult to disprove, and we felt a challenge to identify evidence to counter or support this type of allegation. As general guidelines, we felt there were three types of evidence that could help resolve the standoff:
(1) compelling original raw data with evidence for or against unequal or delayed gel loading;(2) verified replication already existing within the published literature;and
(3) as a last resort, a replication study performed by a wholly independent laboratory. +
This is a case study about conducting research in traditional cultural settings. Implementing international research ethics in the complex realities of local contexts can be challenging. The representation of reseacrhers as guests and the cultural value of hospitality in Pakistan creates nuanced dilemmas. How to do field reseach without deepening local poverty, but respesting cultural values? +
This is a case study about conducting research in traditional cultural settings. Implementing international research ethics in the complex realities of local contexts can be challenging. The representation of reseacrhers as guests and the cultural value of hospitality in Pakistan creates nuanced dilemmas. How to do field reseach without deepening local poverty, but respesting cultural values? +
This is a factual case about three child psychiatrists who failed to disclose consultancy fees that they received from pharmaceutical companies. Between 2000 and 2007, the three researchers received a combined total of $4.2 million from different companies. The three scientists claim that this was an honest mistake, and consequently were "banned from participating in 'industry-sponsored outside activities' for one year, to be followed by a two-year period of close monitoring and a delay in consideration for promotion.'"`UNIQ--ref-00000000-QINU`"'
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A PI and her students are performing a promising experiment but they experience some difficulties with the material they use. They discover that their experiment could be improved by exchanging one of their materials for another, toxic material. Should they change the material? What are the responsibilities of the PI towards her students? Do the students have any role in the decision? +
This case describes how a high profile Chinese scientist, who at one point was the head of the research integrity initiative in China, become involved in a research scandal of his own work. Image manipulation expert, Elizabeth Bik, uncovered in 2013 that over 40 papers co-authored by the scientist appeared to be falsified. In several of his papers images appeared to be falsified.'"`UNIQ--ref-00000000-QINU`"' An overview of the papers of the scientist, of which several are now retracted, can be found on PubPeer. '"`UNIQ--ref-00000001-QINU`"' +
This study identifies timeliness as one of the most important aims of health care. It is recognized as a fundamental factor in quality of care, measuring of wait times and the amount of times it takes for a patient to have access to an appointment and see a clinician. The authors conclude that timeliness emerged as a crucial indicator of overall system performance. +
This fictional and educational case describes the use and impact of herbicide resistant rice, a type of rice genetically modified to resist weeds. +
This short text gives an example of a successful replication of a Van Gogh's work of art “Sunset at Montmajour”. The painting was stored in an attic for a century because it was believed to be a fake. However, a new research, including analysis of the pigments in the paint and their discoloration (and also letters from Van Gogh), the Van Gogh Museum has changed its view. +
An anthropologist on a Native American reservation has been told that a person committed a serious crime. He denies meeting this person when questioned by the tribal police. +
An anthropologist on a Native American reservation has been told that a person committed a serious crime. He meets the suspect but denies having seen them when questioned by the tribal police. +
History Educators in the Western Balkans Participate in New Training with “Once Upon a Time…We Lived Together. 1900-1945” +
This multilingual teaching tool is the main outcome of the History that Conects project "How to teach Sensitive and Controversial History in the countries of former Yugoslavia?" (2011-2014). It contains 23 workshops focusing on some of the most sensitive and controversial issues in the region between 1900-1945. Educators from all seven project countries - Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Republic of North Macedonia, Serbia and Slovenia - contributed to this publication. +
This is a factual case about a medical study that took place in a Guatemalan prison. In this study, experiments into syphilis infection were performed on military personnel, prisoners, asylum inmates, and orphans, without their consent. Rather than giving a detailed description of events, like other reports on this subject have already done, the article reconstructs the research environment that allowed this unethical study to take place. +
An author sends his manuscript to be submitted for review. The referee, who gives a positive review, claims he was coincidentally working on the same problem, and weeks later submits his own paper on the subject. The author complains about this to the editor, who calls the referee. The referee is vague and capricious in his answers. +
The case focuses on the complicated story of a genetic research on sexual orientation. +
This a real case about an orthopaedic expert (Prof. Aspenberg) who was invited to join a workgroup in a luxury hotel in Switzerland, so that he would advocate for a new commercial method of bone enhancement called prophylactic surgery. He was also asked to become a co-author of a paper that promotes this method and an associated product. He realises that this is set up by a commercial company and that both the working group and the follow-up paper are aimed at promoting the company's product, and he declines the request to advocate for the method, or become a co-author. +
