Re: Article~Fraud Case Seen as a Red Flag for Psychology Research

[Guest guest]

lindanewland95 wrote:

> Fraud Case Seen as a Red Flag for Psychology Research

>

>

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/03/health/research/noted-dutch-psychologist-stape\

l-accused-of-research-fraud.html?_r=1

>

> Do U think this only happens in research in the field of psychology?

Oh lordy lordy, - no.

*All* scientific fields have experienced fraud. Since a long time back

there have been hundreds++.

It used to be relatively rare. Most scientists had little incentive

to be dishonest. Things are different now: For a variety of reasons

mostly related to money and the prospect of fame, reports of scientific

misconduct and fraud are increasing world-wide.

Relatively recent, in a field of interest to all of us here:

* Wakefield*, who claimed links between the MMR vaccine, *autism*

and inflammatory bowel disease. He was found guilty of dishonesty in his

research and *banned from medicine* by the UK General Medical Council.

Wikipedia has a decent general article (from which I abstracted the

paragraph above):

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_misconduct>

There you'll find some exact references and numerous key-words for

further search.

- Bill, AS, 79 ...geneticist (inter alia)

--

WD " Bill " Loughman - Berkeley, California USA

http://home.earthlink.net/~wdloughman/wdl.htm