All Ethics articles – Page 7
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NewsCost of scientific misconduct smaller than feared
Analysis puts a price on misconduct for US funder and claims it only comes to $58 million over 10 years
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NewsScientists and university officials caught up in China’s anti-corruption drive
Rising funding for universities may be fuelling corruption, while top bosses’ fiefdoms makes them hard to catch
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NewsAttempted poisoning wasn't chemical warfare, court rules
US supreme court throws out microbiologist’s conviction under international chemical weapons treaty
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UK researchers pledge transparency in animal research
Seventy-two organisations sign Concordat on Openness in Animal Research
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NewsLeading Chinese chemist jailed for embezzlement
Environmental scientist Chen Yingxu sentenced to 10 years for stealing grant money
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Silenced scientists speak out in Canada
Survey finds government scientists unable to talk to the media about their work, even if the environment or public health are threatened
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NewsNobel peace prize goes to body that aims to eliminate chemical weapons
Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons wins prize after recent work destroying Syria’s chemical arsenal
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NewsPoland gets serious on plagiarism
Government plans scheme to check all theses submitted since September 2005
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CareersNon-profit pharma
Not-for-profit drug discovery is growing into a promising niche employment opportunity within the pharmaceutical industry. James Mitchell Crow investigates
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Opinion
Misconduct: on the blog and in the open
When formal investigations of research misconduct are opaque and sluggish, it is inevitable that chemists will take to the blogs to debate suspicious papers, says Mark Peplow
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NewsWith great blogging power… comes great responsibility
Revelations of suspected scientific malpractice have raised questions of just what role the online chemistry community should play in rooting out bad behaviour
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NewsCall to arms on data integrity
Journal editor tells chemists to get tough on bad practices such as scrubbing spectra of embarrassing impurities
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NewsUCLA chemist to stand trial for safety violations linked to Sheri Sangji death
The supervisor of a research assistant who died in a horrific lab accident faces four years in prison for violating health and safety laws
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NewsFinishing line in sight for libel reform
After travelling a rocky road, the libel reform bill is set to enter English law and will provide more protection for journalists and scientists
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UK funders get tough on research misconduct
Research Councils UK will be able to withhold money from universities that fail to take ethical breaches seriously
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Opinion
Safeguarding science against falsehood demands debate
Mathias Brust makes a plea for more debate in the scientific literature
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NewsGerman research minister’s doctoral thesis revoked in plagiarism row
University of Dusseldorf concludes that Annette Schavan copied large portions of her doctoral dissertation
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NewsDuplicate grants could be costing US science agencies millions
Analysis claims that since 1985 major science agencies may have spent $5.1 billion on research that had already received funding