Professional Ethics Log
Minst.org eJournal Newswatch
Minst.org Watch Team
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"…there's nothing of any importance in life - except how
well you do your work. Nothing. Only that. Whatever
else you are, will come from that. It's the only measure of human
value. All the codes of ethics they'll try to ram down your throat
are just so much paper money put out by swindlers to fleece people of
their virtues. The code of competence is the only system of
morality that's on a gold standard" - Ayn Rand,
Atlas Shrugged, 1957
As of October 2013, update and link maintenance have been discontinued
September 19, 2013TheScientist:
What to Do About "Clare Francis"
June 19, 2013TheScientist:
Rampant Plagiarism in Two Journals
May 31, 2013
Science:
Review of Cloning Paper Prompts Questions
May 29, 2013TheScientist:
Opinion: Ethics Training in Science
March 12, 2013Accuracy in Academia:
Inside The Ivory Curtain
February 21, 2013TheScientist:
Opinion: Communication Crisis in Research
February 14, 2013Minst.org: A deadly threat to the
individual scientist:
Redefine misconduct as distorted reporting
January 24, 2013Checkbiotech.org:
Tufts University says probe under way on GM rice test in China
December 13, 2012The Scientist: News &
Opinions: News:
A Decade of Misconduct
November 15, 2012Accuracy in Academia:
Texts Teachers Learn By
October 19, 2012Committee on Science, Space and Technology:
Subcommittee Requests IG Review of EPA Experiments on Humans
October 17, 2012PNAS:
Misconduct accounts for the majority of retracted scientific publications
September 12, 2012Minst.org: How do
you think we can increase transparency in research? Perhaps reviewers
could be more or less "trained" to review manuscripts simply for their
"scientific soundness" rather than just for their findings - says Dr. Haiko Sprott,
Head of the Pain Clinic Basel, Switzerland in an interview
why publish your negative results?
An impossible divorce! "Findings" and "scientific soundness" give the
checks and balances to the review process. Reviewers could be more or
less trained? The blind can only lead the blind, not the expert
reviewer!
August 22, 2012Minst.org: Another Band-Aid for lack of merit:
Initiative Tackles Scientific Study Validation
July 24, 2012Minst.org: We have
arrived at the three ring circus!
Comment on
this retraction: Readers free to criticize journal's decisions
July 17, 2012Nature:
Libel win reveals need for reform
July 6, 2012Accuracy in Academia:
PBS: Online Reeducation Camp
June 14, 2012Nature:
Reply to
all
June 6, 2012BioTechniques:
Cancer Postdoc on Probation for Falsifying Data
May 31, 2012Accuracy in Academia:
Head Start Fails Test
April 18, 2012Minst.org: Too many
retractions? Welcome to the world of parasite voyeurs at
Retraction Watch
April 17, 2012Accuracy in Academia:
Academic Bureaucracy in Motion, Again
April 13, 2012BioTechniques:
Author Admits Data Manipulation, Journal Retracts Paper
April 12, 2012FIRE:
FIRE Asks Cornell to Preserve Due Process
April 5, 2012Paul R. Houser: "My
motivation for submitting this allegation is to uphold the principles of
scientific integrity and its code of conduct, as is my responsibility as a
practicing research scientist" from
Paul Houser’s allegation (PDF)
March 29, 2012Minst.org:
"Editors and referees cannot be expected to divine when only positive data are included and inconvenient results left out"
- Says Nature Editorial
Must try harder. Are Nature Editors seeking diviners for review?
They should consider seeking expert reviewers who can recognize "unrelated data panels; missing references; incorrect controls; undeclared cosmetic adjustments to figures; duplications; reserve figures and dummy text included; inaccurate and incomplete methods; and improper use of statistics".
March 28, 2012BioTechniques:
RNA Editing Paper Under Fire
March 7, 2012Nature:
Trouble at the text mine
March 1, 2012BioTechniques:
Federal Grant Bar for Neurologist
February 23, 2012Minst.org:
Occupy Elsevier? Publication costs money therefore you need to pay the
publisher, and you get the impact factor for free!
February 10, 2012The Examiner:
EPA should stop hiding the data used in making regulations
February 9, 2012Nature:
Duplicate-grant case puts funders under pressure
February 1, 2012BioTechniques:
Research Misconduct Prevalent in UK
January 30, 2012FIRE:
Supreme Court Decision in 'Jones' and Students' Fourth Amendment Rights
January 23, 2012BioTechniques:
Clinical Trials Remain Unpublished
January 14, 2012Nature:
Research ethics: Zero tolerance
November 26, 2011BioTechniques:
Peer-Review Game
November 4, 2011Accuracy in Academia:
Academics discover slackers
October 7, 2011BioTechniques:
Partial XMRV Retraction, Group Leader Leaves Institute
October 6, 2011SASA:
The Five Most Common Forms Of Sample Abuse
August 25, 2011Minst.org:
A small change makes a difference?
Rather a big change for the worst! Scholastic environments are engaging
in violation of students' right to privacy, infringement on personal freedom
and promotion of social agenda
August 17, 2011BioTechniques:
Cancer researcher fabricated data
August 5, 2011American Thinker:
Enlightened
activist scientists dim society
August 1, 2011BioTechniques:
Self-plagiarism
concerns lead to retraction of two papers
April 29, 2011
Minst.org: Journal of Bacteriology reaches new low with its review process, retracts paper based on authors' gross negligence:
Retraction
April 26, 2011
Nature:
Science failed to self-regulate (reprint may be requested from frederik.trettin [at] uni-konstanz.de)
April 25, 2011
BioTechniques:
Scientific misconduct starts early
April 14, 2011
Accuracy in Academia:
Graduates Chase Green Jobs
March 31, 2011
BioTechniques:
Genome databases contaminated
March 28, 2011
Accuracy in Academia:
Deconstructing Composition
March 5, 2011
Nature News:
Budget woes sink marine archive
February 2, 2011
Climatequotes.com:
Nearly 100 'Climate Education Programs' funded by NASA, NOAA, NSF & EPA
January 20, 2011
Minst.org: Something amiss in Utopia?
Peer review: Trial by Twitter: A bumper crop of experts at the door?
January 19, 2011
Nature News:
Cancer trial errors revealed
January 4, 2011
Minst.org: Extra! Extra! Read all about it! French export terror to China!
French Nobelist Escapes "Intellectual Terror" to Pursue Radical Ideas in China
December 11, 2010
FIRE:
Challenging your college's speech code
December 9, 2010
BioTechniques:
Biomedical copycats found by plagiarism detection software
November 12, 2010
BioTechniques:
Duke cancer paper retraction pending Update: November 24, 2010:
Duke researcher resigns
November 3, 2010
Minst.org: No need for experience? Is a genius born every second? The ill-thought projected-60-millions NIH-funded program for junior students conveys elitism, not fair competition:
Junior scientists leapfrog postdoc training
HSLDA:
Colleges Now Required to Determine "Validity" of High School Diplomas
November 2, 2010
BioTechniques:
Harvard stem cell researcher retracts two papers
October 11, 2010
Minst.org: An honest physicist will not compromise, places science above money and political influence:
Hal Lewis: My Resignation from the American Physical Society
October 9, 2010
BioTechniques:
Nobelist retracts two papers
September 17, 2010
BioTechniques:
Former Wisconsin researcher sentenced for misconduct
Physicsworld.com:
Peer review highly sensitive to poor refereeing, claim researchers
August 30, 2010
Harvard Magazine:
FAS Dean Smith Confirms Scientific Misconduct by Marc Hauser
August 26, 2010
Harvard Magazine:
Bye-bye, Blue Books?
July 30, 2010
The American:
The National Academy of Blacklists
July 2, 2010
Accuracy in Academia:
Books Bite the Dust
May 24, 2010
BioTechniques:
ORI finds fifteen instances of misconduct involving a single researcher
May 18, 2010
Minst.org: Funding agencies, peers, editors must investigate unethical activities by scientists plus stay narrowly focused, but governments violate academic freedom when they engage in witch hunt:
FIRE Criticizes Virginia Attorney General's Investigation of Professor
May 12, 2010
Minst.org: Climate scientists have been fingered for wrong doing therefore they must be held accountable but apparently the 255 members of the US National Academy of Sciences who signed the
Open letter: Climate change and the integrity of science have not understood the seriousness of the situation
April 28, 2010
Minst.org: Personal accountability is best remedy and deterrent to Nature's editorial dilemma
Under suspicion. Do it once get a notice, second time get a fine! Three strikes you're out!
April 22, 2010
BioTechniques:
Investigation finds pharmaceutical researcher falsified grant application,
Former Indiana University grad student admits misconduct
March 25, 2010
Mednansky Institute urges academics to take the test:
Are you an honest academic?
March 22, 2010
Science:
Elsevier to Editor: Change Controversial Journal or Resign
March 8, 2010
FIRE:
UC San Diego Freezes Funds for 33 Media Groups, Dissolves Student TV, Threatens to Punish Students for Protected Speech
February 17, 2010
The Scientist: News:
Wanted: Records of revoked grants
January 8, 2010
Science: Letters:
Editorial Expression of Concern
December 6, 2009
Science: Science and Society:
Stolen E-mails Turn Up Heat on Climate Change Rhetoric
November 29, 2009
FIRE:
Defying the Constitution: The Rise, Persistence, and Prevalence of Campus Speech Codes
November 25, 2009
Minst.org: NewsWatch:
Politics and
Egotism over Science
November 9, 2009
Mednansky Institute endorses
Statement of Principles
November 7, 2009
Science: U.S. Science Policy:
Peer Review not popular at Homeland Security (summary only, subscription or pay-per-view required for full text)
September 14, 2009
Committee on Science and Technology:
Troubling pattern of events concerning scientific integrity
July 28, 2009
FIRE:
A nation that does not educate in liberty will not long preserve it
May 26, 2009
Minst.org: PubMed: Kinks in the links or bats in the belfry? Looking for a correspondence by Crasnier-Mednansky
M, 2008, you'll find a correspondence by Narang A, 2009!
June 1, 2009: NIH-NLM reports bats were exported from Nature Reviews Microbiology
June 3, 2009: No more kinks in the links, but no one takes responsibility
May 22, 2009
Minst.org: Peer review failure is waste to taxpayer dollars: Here comes a Comment for citation violations!
May 19, 2009
The Scientist:
Citation Violations (registration required)
May 8, 2009
Minst.org: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) betrays professional ethics in the name of sycophancy:
Nancy Pelosi: Foursquare for Science (subscription required)
May 3, 2009
American Thinker:
Peer Review Needs Improvement
April 17, 2009
Minst.org: Peer review failure is waste to taxpayer dollars: Comment update
March 20, 2009
Minst.org: Launching
Comments to promote peer review integrity
February 23, 2009
Minst.org: Usually a theory is killed by an 'ugly fact' but it is common
practice to ignore a multitude of tiny ugly facts to push a theory. Is
there any role…? (Crasnier-Mednansky M, 2008) Correspondence blatantly says
no (Narang A, 2009) without grounds (
Comment
postdated March 20, 2009)
November 25, 2008
The Scientist:
Critics rip Cell paper (registration required)
November 8, 2008Minst.org: NewsWatch:
Author ethics