11/17 Research Ethics

Question 1

What are some of the issues that fall under the responsible conduct of research

Answer 1

there are nine: Data management; conflicts of interest; human subjects research; research on animals; research misconduct; publishing and authorship; the mentor/trainee relationship; peer review; collaborative science

Question 2

what are a few famous cases form the history of science

Answer 2

Millikan oil drop: 58/140 data points reported. Darwin: Joint Publication! and Millikan’s Mentoree: Lost Authorship for main publication of oil drop

Question 3

how would the famous cases be handled under the current regulatory system in place for dealing with issues pertaining to the responsible conduct of reasearch

Answer 3

Millikan: Contact the office of research integrity, ask if there is misconduct. should have ran a method improvement period and then establish criteria and run an experiment period. Darwin: handled it well: indipendent review and joint publication! Millikan Mentoree: should arrange authorship as joinging a group.

Question 4

what is research misconduct

Answer 4

the fabrication, falsification, or plagiarism in proposing, performing, or reviewing research.

Question 5

what is fabrication?

Answer 5

making up data or results

Question 6

waht is falsification?

Answer 6

is manipulating research materials, equipment or processess or changing or omitting data or results

Question 7

what is plagiarism

Answer 7

use of another person’s ideas processes results or words without giving appropriate credit.