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William Summerlin (US), a dermatologist formerly at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, in 1974 committed scientific misconduct in his work on transplant immunology. [187] [188] It was from this case that the phrase "painting the mice" originated as a synonym for research fraud. [189] [190]
Colin Diver, former president of Reed College writes that an "Honor Principle" must be the basis of a culture of academic integrity. [69] Some professors defended the take-home exam format. [70] Erika Christakis and Nicholas A. Christakis write that there is a "national crisis of academic dishonesty." [71] Harry R. Lewis entreats Harvard to ...
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The NCAA declared McAdoo ineligible for accepting improper benefits and committing academic fraud, based on the UNC Undergraduate Honor Court finding that McAdoo committed academic dishonesty by having Jennifer Wiley complete a bibliography and works-cited section on a research paper for an AFAM class. [21]
Academic dishonesty, academic misconduct, academic fraud and academic integrity are related concepts that refer to various actions on the part of students that go against the expected norms of a school, university or other learning institution. Definitions of academic misconduct are usually outlined in institutional policies.
In 2010, he was found guilty of dishonesty in his research and banned from medicine by the UK General Medical Council following an investigation by Brian Deer of the London Sunday Times. [ 74 ] The claims in Wakefield's paper were widely reported, [ 75 ] leading to a sharp drop in vaccination rates in the UK and Ireland and outbreaks of mumps ...
Professor Volker Rieble approved the report of the university but saw the case as an expression of the public desire for "ritual punishment". Rieble decried the widespread practice of academic publications being written by assistants but published by professors as much worse for academia than any plagiarism. [184]
The scandal provoked discussion in the scientific community about the degree of responsibility which coauthors and reviewers of scientific articles bear in cases of scientific misbehavior. The discussion mainly concerned whether peer review , traditionally designed to find errors and determine relevance and originality of articles, should also ...