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SUMMARY:Misconduct in academic publication:  how big is the problem and ho
 w can researchers avoid it? - Liz Wager\, Chair of the Committee on Public
 ation Ethics (COPE)\, and author of Getting Research Published (Radcliffe 
 Publishing)
DTSTART:20100210T200000Z
DTEND:20100210T210000Z
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CONTACT:Simon Schlachter
DESCRIPTION:A handful of high-profile fraud cases hit the headlines every 
 year. Recent examples include the Hwang cloning case from Korea and the Sc
 hön nanotechnology case from Germany. Such cases raise questions about wh
 ether peer review can be expected to detect fraud and how much resource jo
 urnals should invest in such procedures. Some argue that serious cases of 
 data fabrication represent such an extreme of aberrant behaviour that we c
 annot hope to prevent them or are so rare that the costs of policing the v
 ast majority of innocent work outweighs the possible benefits. Others beli
 eve editors should focus on less dramatic forms of misconduct and question
 able behaviour which\, being more common\, might actually have a more harm
 ful effect on the research literature. 
LOCATION:Nihon Room\, Pembroke College
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