Research Integrity

Research Misconduct

• Scientists should adopt codes of ethics, scientist-bioethicist says (Science Daily)
• Philosophical Foundations of Scientific Ethics: David Resnik, University of Wyoming
• MIT Professor Dismissed for Research Misconduct: Massachusetts Institute of Technology news office
• Ethics and the Welfare of the Physics Profession (Physics Today)
• Scientific misconduct - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Special Report: Taking on Cheats (Nature Magazine)
• Using Criminalization and Due Process to Reduce Scientific Misconduct (American Journal of Bioethics)
• China sets up rules to combat scientific misconduct: Science and Development Network
• Research Misconduct: Columbia University
• Global trend: more science, more fraud, by Lawrence K. Altman and William J. Bird (New York Times)
• Data Acquisition and Management: Columbia University
• Retractions' Realities (Nature magazine)
• The Council of Science Editors (CSE) - Editorial Policies: Promoting Integrity in Scientific Journals

Korean Stem Cell Scandal

• Korean Stem Cell Scandal: Science Magazine
• Retraction of Hwang et al.: Science Magazine
• Hwang Woo-Suk: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Disgraced cloning scientist on trial in S. Korea: MSNBC
• Ethics and Fraud: Nature Magazine

Retraction of plant flowering (Arabidopsis) study

• Long-Sought Plant Flowering Signal Unmasked, Again: Science Magazine
• Retraction of Huang et al.: Science Magazine
• Science retracts major Arabidopsis paper, by Edyta Zielinska (The Scientist)
• Accurate mapping of plant genome could lead to new generation of hybrid plants, by Sarah Yang (UC Berkeley News)

Bubble Fusion - Taleyarkhan

• Bubble-headed?by Noah Shachtman (WIRED Magazine)
• Disputed inquiry Clears Bubble- Fusion Engineer: Nature Magazine
• Misconduct? It's all academic: Nature Magazine

Cold Fusion

• The Tech - PFC results said to deal blow to fusion claims
• WhatiIf cold fusion is real? by Charles Platt (WIRED Magazine)
• Physicists Debunk Claim Of a New Kind of Fusion
• Cold Fusion Research: Title Page
• Whatever happened to cold fusion? by David Goodstein
• The Office of Science -2004 Combined Federal Campaign (CFC)
• John Polanyi Official Website Public Affairs Making Discoveries, Elation Should Be Tempered Until Jury Has Examined Experiments.
• Cold Fusion: an objective assessment, by Edmund Storms (New Energy Times)

Conflict of Interest

• Model Language Unveiled to Help Clinical Researchers Disclose Financial Conflicts
• Conflict of interest notification study
• Conflict-of-Interest Inquiry May Be Reopening at NIH (Washington Post)
• Wake-up call, by Rob Harrill (UW Alumni News)
• Microwave News ~ News & Comment
• What's Wrong With Money in Science?
• Money for science, by Steven J. Breckler (APA Online)
• Conflict of Interest Information and Resources: National Institutes if Health
• Conflict of Interest: NIH Office of Extramural Research
• Conflicts of Interest: Columbia University
• On being a scientist - responsible conduct in research: National Academies Press
• Conflict of Interest: The National Academies
• National Science Foundation: Conflicts of interest Policy & Manual 15
• Disclosure in Regulatory Science: Michaels and Wagner, Science Magazine

Sokal Affair

• Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity, by Alan Sokal (Social Text)
• A Physicist Experiments With Cultural Studies
• Alan Sokal Articles on the "Social Text" AffairSokal's Reply to Social Text Editorial
• The Sokal Hoax: at whom are we laughing? by Mara Beller
• Editorial reply by Social Text to the Sokal affair

Bogdanov Affair

• The Bogdanoff Affair: John Baez
• Bogdanov Affair - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• The Bogdanov Affair (Quantum Future)

Authorship

• Writer's Cramp, Christopher Anderson (Nature Magazine)
• Credit Where Credit's Due (Nature Magazine)
• The Authorship List in Science: Junior Physicists' Perceptions of Who Appears and Why, by Eugene Tarnow (NAE Online Ethics Center)
• Responsible authorship and peer review (Columbia University)

Ethics of Experimentation

• On Being A Scientist: Responsible Conduct In Research
• Undertaking Research in Other Countries: National Ethicao-Legal Barometers and International Ethical Consensus Statements
• Online Ethics Center: Essays on Research Ethics
• Is it Ethical For Scientists to do Research Abroad that would be Forbidden at Home
• Reference Materials about Responsible Research (NAE Online Ethics Center)

Online Research

• Ethical Decision-Making and Internet research: AoIR
• Ethical Guidelines for Research Online: Amy Bruckham, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Studies of Cyberpl@y: Brenda Danet, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Internet Research Ethics: various authors, New York University
• Information in practice-Ethical issues in qualitative research on internet communities: BMJ
• The psychology of cyberspace: John Suler, Rider University

Animal Research

• Use of behavior analysis to recognize pain in small mammals - Lab Animal
• Animal testing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Johns Hopkins Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing
• PHS Policy on Humane Care and Use of Labortory Animals
• Model for Performing IACUC: Continuing Review of Animal Research
• Specially bred mice may hold keys to personalized medicine: Wired News
• Abolitionist-Online: A Voice for Animal Rights
• Animal Right Extremists Threaten Medical Research: Dr. Joseph E. Murray. The Science Advisory Board
• Pro-Test March II: 600 citizens stand up for science: Pro-Test
• Pro-Animal or Anti-Human?: Wesley J. Smith, National Review Online
• Biomedical research and animal welfare—a delicate balance: Nature
• Animal Research Saves Lives: Foundation for Biomedical Research
• Animal Welfare vs. Animal Rights: Foundation for Biomedical Research
• Animal Rights International
• Arcnews: The UK's premier online animal rights magazine
• Animals in Research - Society for Toxicology
• What the Public Does Not Know: Timberley Roane
• Animal Rights: Libertarian Nation

Human Research

• DOE Openness: Human Radiation Experiments
• OHSR - Office of Human Subjects Research
• Resources on Human Experimentation
• Consortium Aims to Improve Protection of Human Research Subjects
• Nazis and Medical ethics: Context and Lessons
• Stanford prison experiment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Consortium Aims to Improve Protection of Human Research Subjects
• The Stanford Prison Experiment: A Simulation Study of the Psychology of Imprisonment
• Deliberately Exposing People to Toxins: Report Calls for More Stringent Ethical Standards in Scientific Studies
• Medical Research Scientists Make Ethical Value Judgments In Research
• Testing drugs on India's poor: Wired News
• Drug test cowboys - The secret world of Pharmaceutical trial subjects: Wired news
• Nigeria sues Pfizer for £3.5bn over 'illegal' child drug trials: Guardian

Milgram Experiment

• Milgram experiment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Jewish Currents: Resisting Authority: A Personal Account of the Milgram Obedience Experiments
• The Milgram Experiment: A Lesson in Depravity
• The Perils of Obedience - Stanley Milgram
• Milgram's Study of Obedience

Federal Ethics Publications

• Office of Research Integrity
• National Bioethics Advisory Commission -- Publications
• NIH MPA - The Belmont Report - Ethical Principles and Guidelines for the Protection of Human Subjects of Research
• Office of Research Integrity
• NSF Office of the Inspector General

Publication Ethics

• Preprint Analysis quantifies Scientific Plagiarism: Nature Magazine
• MIT Terminates Researcher over Data Fabrication: Science Magazine
• Policing Integrity: Nature Magazine
• Plagiarism in Cambridge Physics Lab Prompts Calls for Guidelines: Nature Magazine
• Scientific Sloppiness is Bad News for Translational Research: Harvard University
• Academic Freedom or Scientific Misconduct?: Editorial from Journal of Scientific Exploration
• Seed: Dirty Little Secret

Subscription-only links

• Antiscientific Attitudes
• Plagiarism: Digging to the Root of the Problem
• Scientific Authorship Part 1
• Integrity Problems
• Bursting of Bubble Fusion
• Six Domains of Research Ethics