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| Introduction | |
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| About the author | |
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| Irresponsible conduct in research: What is it, why does it happen, and how do we identify it when it happens? | |
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| What constitutes scientific misconduct? | |
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| Intentional negligence in acknowledgment of previous work | |
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| What is it? | |
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| Why does it happen? | |
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| How is it caught? | |
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| Deliberate fabrication of data you have collected | |
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| What is it? | |
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| Why does it happen? | |
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| How is it caught? | |
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| Deliberate omission of known data that does not agree with hypotheses | |
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| What is it? | |
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| Why does it happen? | |
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| How is it caught? | |
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| Passing another researcher's data as one's own | |
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| What is it? | |
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| Why does it happen? | |
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| How is it caught? | |
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| Publication of results without consent of all the researchers | |
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| What is it? | |
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| Why does it happen? | |
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| How is it caught? | |
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| Failure to acknowledge all the researchers who performed the work | |
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| What is it? | |
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| Why does it happen? | |
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| How is it caught? | |
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| Authorship and intellectual property | |
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| Conflict of interest issues | |
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| What is it? | |
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| Why does it happen? | |
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| How is it caught? | |
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| Repeated publication of too-similar results | |
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| What is it? | |
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| Why does it happen? | |
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| How is it caught? | |
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| Breach of confidentiality | |
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| What is it? | |
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| Why does it happen? | |
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| How is it caught? | |
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| Misrepresenting others' previous work | |
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| What is it? | |
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| Why does it happen? | |
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| How is it caught? | |
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| Bad ethics vs. bad science | |
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| Scenario 1 | |
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| Scenario 2 | |
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| New results that prove old results wrong | |
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| The whistle-blower's dilemma | |
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| Wrapping up | |
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| What happens to those who violate responsible conduct? | |
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| Human and animal subjects | |
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| Wrapping up | |
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| What is peer review's role in responsible conduct in research? | |
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| Revisiting Vlad and Frankie | |
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| Can peer reviewers be unethical? | |
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| Wrapping up | |
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| What effect on the public does scientific misconduct have? | |
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| MMR and autism | |
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| Climategate | |
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| HTV vaccine | |
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| Animal rights groups | |
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| Cold fusion | |
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| Bernard Kettlewell | |
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| Electromagnetic field and high-tension power lines | |
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| Fracking and pollution | |
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| Wrapping up | |
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| What constitutes responsible conduct from the point of view of human/animal subjects in research? | |
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| Wrapping up | |
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| Can intervention or interference by the federal government result in research misconduct? | |
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| Wrapping up | |
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| Can we prevent misconduct in research? | |
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| Intentional negligence in acknowledgment of previous work | |
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| Deliberate fabrication of data | |
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| Deliberate omission of known data that doesn't agree with hypotheses | |
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| Passing another researcher's data as one's own | |
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| Publication of results without consent of all the researchers | |
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| Failure to acknowledge all the researchers who performed the work | |
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| Conflict-of-interest issues | |
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| Repeated publication of too-similar results | |
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| Breach of confidentiality | |
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| Misrepresenting others' work | |
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| Wrapping up | |
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| Case Studies | |
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| Darwin and Wallace | |
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| Summary | |
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| What happened? | |
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| Resolution | |
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| Questions to ponder | |
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| Sources | |
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| Rangaswamy Srinivasan-VISX patent dispute | |
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| Summary | |
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| The story | |
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| Questions to ponder | |
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| Sources | |
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| Schwartz and Mirkin | |
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| Summary | |
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| How did it start? | |
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| Mirkin says | |
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| Schwartz says | |
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| Mirkin responds | |
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| Villa-Komaroff's role | |
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| Resolution | |
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| Questions to ponder | |
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| Sources | |
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| Corey and Woodward | |
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| Summary | |
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| Corey says | |
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| Hoffmann says | |
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| L.J. Oosterhoff | |
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| Resolution | |
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| Questions to ponder | |
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| Sources | |
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| C�rdova, Scripps Research Institute, and Stockholm University | |
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| Summary | |
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| What happened? | |
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| Resolution | |
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| Questions to ponder | |
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| Sources | |
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| La Clair and hexacyclinol | |
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| Summary | |
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| What happened? | |
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| Resolution | |
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| Questions to ponder | |
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| Sources | |
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| Woodward and quinine | |
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| Summary | |
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| What happened? | |
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| Resolution | |
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| Questions to ponder | |
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| Sources | |
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| DNA | |
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| Summary | |
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| What happened? | |
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| Resolution | |
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| Questions to ponder | |
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| Sources | |
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| David Baltimore and Teresa Imanishi-Kari | |
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| Summary | |
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| O'Toole's side | |
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| Charles Maplethorpe | |
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| Teresa Imanishi-Kari | |
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| David Baltimore | |
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| The public perception | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Questions to ponder | |
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| Sources | |
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| John Fenn-Yale patent dispute | |
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| Summary | |
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| The story | |
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| Questions to ponder | |
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| Sources | |
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| VIOXX� | |
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| Summary | |
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| Question to ponder | |
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| Sources | |
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| Index | |