For example:
The authors “appeared to have composed figures by piecing together parts of photos from different experiments,” says Elisabeth Bik, a molecular biologist and well-known forensic image consultant. “The obtained experimental results might not have been the desired results, and that data might have been changed to … better fit a hypothesis.”
And:
The attorney’s clients—two prominent neuroscientists who are also short sellers who profit if the company’s stock falls—believed some research related to Simufilam may have been “fraudulent,” according to a petition later filed on their behalf with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Combined with the NPCC hockey stick and ice melt readings, along with all the other massaged figures and doctored images [posts passim], there's an entire field of study here for fraud sleuths. Dangerous work.
And it can rapidly broaden into examining research in any field these days ... this is an old article ... an old issue it seems:
I need your money, sorry, meant to say funding of grants, to enable me to research all the research and establish which worked.
ReplyDeleteReally, I believe that good teachers are esential, but we are not allowed to judge who is a good teacher.
Just get a good degree in some soft subject, and then you can bypass the good teachers and establish yourself in some position where you do not have to interact with the undisciplined unruly oiks.
Then you have the experience to become an "educationalist" and do research and tell the good teachers how they should be doing it.
This year. Next year it will be different.