It has been observed that integrity and ethics in research and publication are often compromised. The initiative as I have come know is the most appropriate, deserving and timely.
This exciting new initiative strikes me as much needed! It's quite a shame that the HHS’s Office of Research Integrity only prosecutes 5-10 cases per year to completion. Prior to 2021 they only prosecuted 1-2 cases per year! (https://ori.hhs.gov/content/case_summary)
I sure hope it somehow also protects whistleblowers from not being hired anymore by institutions down the road of their career paths (Haven't checked the CSLDG climate fund). I am sure this will help a lot though for the first years though. Great effort!
I just retired from a social science department. What I personally notice is mostly "cutting corners," either to save time (and write more papers), or to encourage results in a particular direction. Of course there may be plenty of more serious fraud going on. It's just harder to find without deliberately searching for it, while cutting corners is quite easy to spot.
Cutting corners is one cause of the crisis of non-replicable results in so many fields. For example, why bother to check your software carefully, once you have the results you expected to see? One result is a huge number of errors in software (including spreadsheets) that are used to calculate research results. Then if someone else tries to replicate a result that was based on buggy software, they won't be able to.
Unfortunately, the academic publish or perish pressure, and the growing tendency to just count papers (without regard to quality) when making promotion decisions mean that this problem won't get better. Rbohn@ucsd
Article ready to submit on fraud 45 years ago in ideological opposition to a physical therapy procedure. Submitted conference presentation proposal on same in May. The authors attenuated the distribution in order to achieve desired failure in small trial.
It has been observed that integrity and ethics in research and publication are often compromised. The initiative as I have come know is the most appropriate, deserving and timely.
This exciting new initiative strikes me as much needed! It's quite a shame that the HHS’s Office of Research Integrity only prosecutes 5-10 cases per year to completion. Prior to 2021 they only prosecuted 1-2 cases per year! (https://ori.hhs.gov/content/case_summary)
I sure hope it somehow also protects whistleblowers from not being hired anymore by institutions down the road of their career paths (Haven't checked the CSLDG climate fund). I am sure this will help a lot though for the first years though. Great effort!
I just retired from a social science department. What I personally notice is mostly "cutting corners," either to save time (and write more papers), or to encourage results in a particular direction. Of course there may be plenty of more serious fraud going on. It's just harder to find without deliberately searching for it, while cutting corners is quite easy to spot.
Cutting corners is one cause of the crisis of non-replicable results in so many fields. For example, why bother to check your software carefully, once you have the results you expected to see? One result is a huge number of errors in software (including spreadsheets) that are used to calculate research results. Then if someone else tries to replicate a result that was based on buggy software, they won't be able to.
Unfortunately, the academic publish or perish pressure, and the growing tendency to just count papers (without regard to quality) when making promotion decisions mean that this problem won't get better. Rbohn@ucsd
Bravo! Much needed.
Great initiative, Stuart! This deserves sustaining support.
FROM: lpalmer@winona.edu
Article ready to submit on fraud 45 years ago in ideological opposition to a physical therapy procedure. Submitted conference presentation proposal on same in May. The authors attenuated the distribution in order to achieve desired failure in small trial.