Scientific misconduct

Rachel Guest January 25, 2018 CHM 3050-01: Chemistry Seminar The Mystifying Case of Bengü Sezen In 2000, Bengü Sezen started her doctoral studies at Columbia University. “For her doctoral work at Columbia, Sezen claimed to have developed a method for selectively activating C-H bonds, a technique commonly used to functionalize hydrocarbons” (Schulz, 2011). This research topic became the basis for many of the papers she and her mentor, Dalibor Sames published in the Journal of the American…

There are six ethical issues when working with social research which include informed consent, deception, privacy, physical or mental distress, problems in sponsored research, scientific misconduct or fraud and scientific advocacy (Monette et al.,2011). The participants knew that this study or program was made available to them and gave permission to researchers for participation, no names or payments were given. In this research, some would say…

Deception in Scientific Studies Science is one of those subjects that almost everyone is fascinated by. I know I am. I love the idea of human effort to understand or to understand better of how things work in this world. People are constantly introduced to new studies almost every day from the Internet, magazines, social Medias, and so on. Yet, many do not realize that majority of those studies are fraud or lack significance. Most of the times, it leaves non-scientists people like me with…

Additionally, to achieve ethical practices a selection of variables should be examined. Sieber (1993) has defined the term ‘ethics’ as “a set of moral principles and rules of conduct” and has stated that in research it can be applied to prevent harm or misconduct to participants. Furthermore, age and ethnicity are two important variables that should be recognised when social science research has been undertaken. Health and medical issues relevant to children remains partial without the…

Bad science is categorized into three main sections: changing scientific standards, fraudulent science, and junk science. Changing science is when the scientific standards of a theory or practice are revised. A well-known example of changing science is the past diagnosis of “Shaken Baby Syndrome.” When a triad of injuries, including, subdural hematoma (bleeding…

What changed the way we think? Kaitlyn Huff HIST 110-07 Professor Geraghty October 15, 2014 The changing of the human intellect during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries can be contributed to multiple aspects that were seen during those time periods. There are three aspects in particular that can be said to have the most significant role in changing the way individuals of those times thought and their daily life, in general - royal societies, coffee-houses, and salons.…

engineering notebook, as well as supervise the work of my fellow team members. At Governor’s School, I will make sure to collaborate and contribute ideas, as well as provide leadership skills such as guidance, encouragement, and responsibility. The scientific method and problem-based learning located at Governor’s School is a new way of learning that will test my ability to develop solutions by experimenting, inquiring, and analyzing. Although this type of learning is distinctly unlike…

This is important as it was Stewart’s hope that a utilitarian society would help society, as a whole, escape from the poverty that existed at this time. So what is this utilitarianism that is supposed to be able to help those in poverty? Stewart’s utilitarianism is often summed up by his idea of The Greatest Happiness Principle, (Mill 1861). What this means is that decisions in life, in morality, should be based on what will result in the greatest amount of good, or happiness, for the greatest…

0 Legal concerns 24. Sarbanes-Oxley holds whom responsible for effective and efficient financial communication? a. 0 Managers b. 0 Accountants c. 0 Consultants d. 0 Customers Week Six: The Persuasive Communication Plan Objective: Design persuasive communications. 25. What theory focuses on the contexts that promote or hinder the internalization of motivation and the integration of behavior? a. 0 Pseudo listener b. 0 Selective perception c. 0 Cognitive dissonance d. 0…

- conflicting or harmonious nature of their relations RCT was present in a classical social psychology experiment, commonly known as ‘Robbers Cave’ conducted by: MUZAFER SHERIFF AND COLLEAGUES (1954) * Studied group behaviour * -researcher carefully observed the behaviours of the children * Reason – to learn how group conflict developed and how it might be resolved among the children This was identified through 3 stages * group formation * intergroup conflict: group…