University responsibility for the adjudication of research misconduct : the science bubble / Stefan Franzen.

This book offers a scientific whistleblower's perspective on current implementation of federal research misconduct regulations. It provides a narrative of general interest that relates current cases of research ethics to philosophical, historical and sociological accounts of fraud in scientific...

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Main Author: Franzen, Stefan
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2021.
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1: Evolution in a test tube
  • Chapter 2: Scientific discoveries, real and imagined
  • Chapter 3: The transformation of the university into a corporation
  • Chapter 4: The institutional pressure to become a professor-entrepreneur: Chapter 5. The clash between scientific skepticism and current ethics regulations
  • Chapter 6: University administration of ethics
  • Chapter 7: The short path from wishful thinking to scientific fraud
  • Chapter 8: Behind the façade of self-correcting science
  • Chapter 9: The origin of the modern research misconduct system
  • Chapter 10: Sunshine laws and the smokescreen of confidentiality
  • Chapter 11: The conflict between university financial interests and research ethics
  • Chapter 12: Bursting the science bubble.