Falsification of Data – also known as fudging or massaging the data in order to achieve a required outcome that differs from the actual results. Fabrication – when the experiments, the data, or the entire research study (known as “drylabbing”) are made up.
What are the 3 types of research misconduct?
In accordance with U.S. federal policy, there are three forms of research misconduct: plagiarism, fabrication, and falsification.
What happens when scientists falsify data?
In many scientific fields, results are often difficult to reproduce accurately, being obscured by noise, artifacts, and other extraneous data. That means that even if a scientist does falsify data, they can expect to get away with it – or at least claim innocence if their results conflict with others in the same field.
Scientist who lied
Marc Hauser (US), an evolutionary biologist and former Professor of psychology at Harvard University, was found by a University committee and the US Office of Research Integrity to have fabricated and falsified data in his research.
26 July 2016 — In recent decades, the scientific world has been shaken by several cases of scholarly misconduct, including fabricated results and plagiarism, ...
Stanford researchers uncover patterns in how scientists lie ...
Nov 2015 — When scientists falsify data, they try to cover it up by writing differently in their published works.
Lying Politicians Is One Thing. Lying Scientists Is Another ..9 Dec 2017 —
Research fraud: the temptation to lie – 5 July 2016 — Biomedical scientist Dong Pyou-Han was sentenced to 57 months in prison for falsifying data in HIV vaccine trials
Oct 1, 2020 ... After several high-profile cases, the country's government is creating a board to oversee and investigate all serious allegations of scientific misconduct ...
