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Thread ID: 18591 | Posts: 6 | Started: 2005-06-09
2005-06-09 04:35 | User Profile
Few scientists fabricate results from scratch or flatly plagiarize the work of others, but a surprising number engage in troubling degrees of fact-bending or deceit, according to the first large-scale survey of scientific misbehavior.
More than 5 percent of scientists answering a confidential questionnaire admitted to having tossed out data because the information contradicted their previous research or said they had circumvented some human research protections.
Ten percent admitted they had inappropriately included their names or those of others as authors on published research reports.
And more than 15 percent admitted they had changed a study's design or results to satisfy a sponsor, or ignored observations because they had a "gut feeling" they were inaccurate.
[url]http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/08/AR2005060802385.html[/url]
2005-06-09 16:09 | User Profile
Those people into scientism like to paint anyone working at a public university in a science department, with a PhD, as a paragon of objectivity, intelligence, and honesty.
2005-06-09 18:28 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Happy Hacker]Those people into scientism like to paint anyone working at a public university in a science department, with a PhD, as a paragon of objectivity, intelligence, and honesty.[/QUOTE]
And the Jews likes to bragg that most scientist are Jews, no you know what is going on and why most of history is nothing but a lie.
2005-06-09 20:05 | User Profile
None of this is terribly surprising to me. Scientists are human beings, and fierce competition for funding can undoubtedly cause some to yield to the temptation to cheat.
Nevertheless, the scientific method is the best means available for human beings to discover objective truth. Nothing else comes even close. And while scientists certainly don't always follow the scientific method flawlessly or even honestly, their track record of results speak for themselves. Try getting to the moon or using gamma radiation to excise a brain tumor using guesswork or superstitition. It won't happen.
[QUOTE=neoclassical]Few scientists fabricate results from scratch or flatly plagiarize the work of others, but a surprising number engage in troubling degrees of fact-bending or deceit, according to the first large-scale survey of scientific misbehavior.
More than 5 percent of scientists answering a confidential questionnaire admitted to having tossed out data because the information contradicted their previous research or said they had circumvented some human research protections.
Ten percent admitted they had inappropriately included their names or those of others as authors on published research reports.
And more than 15 percent admitted they had changed a study's design or results to satisfy a sponsor, or ignored observations because they had a "gut feeling" they were inaccurate.
[url]http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/08/AR2005060802385.html[/url][/QUOTE]
2005-06-10 05:26 | User Profile
One of the limitations on this forum which we all suffer is that our past posts are not visible when they pertian most fully to the matter at hand. Hmm let me dig back.. I laid arguments I want to bring back, in my past posts, where are they ?
I can only search 50 past posts ? I didn't post 660 for nothing and I am sure others here did not post 1 thousand or more for nothing. Where are they ? How can we retreive our past posts ?
2005-06-17 22:49 | User Profile
It appears some scientists are far more interesting in feeding an already inflated ego rather than advance scientific discovery.