Scientific misconduct. How prevalent is fraud? That's a million-dollar question.
How often does scientific misconduct occur? There seems to be no consensus on the answer, although a range of estimates were presented at a conference called last month by a key federal watchdog agency to announce a $1 million grants program to investigate the prevalence of fraud, data fabrication, plagiarism, and other questionable practices in science. The 8-year-old Office of Research Integrity hopes to support studies gauging the frequency of misconduct and assessing efforts to raise ethical standards.
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D035841:Behavioral Research; D035843:Biomedical Research; D004989:Ethics; D032984:Ethics, Research; D015714:Plagiarism; D012109:Research Support as Topic; D015871:Scientific Misconduct / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D014481:United States; D018172:United States Office of Research Integrity