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Who Is Responsible for a Fraud: An Exercise Examining Research Misconduct and the Obligations of Authorship through Case Studies
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This exercise uses two recent incidents of research misconduct to introduce students to the issue of ethics in scientific publication. The incidents involve alleged data falsification by individual researchers and the accompanying debate over responsibility among their collaborators. Before class, the students read summaries and answer focus questions about the facts of the two cases. With the guidance of the instructor, the technical details are clarified and the ethics of the cases are debated in a three-hour laboratory session. Finally, the students are asked to evaluate a publication dispute in which no fraud has been alleged, but which nonetheless raises similar questions of authorship. They then submit a written report recommending a resolution.
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- Received: August 03, 2009
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