Description of the research fraud:
The Danish neuroscientist Milena Penkowa, an ex-professor of the University of Copenhagen, was a rising start in the scientific community for her important scientific contributions in the area of brain research1 with close to 100 peer-reviewed papers2, becoming the recipient of several important awards and obtaining millions in research funding1,2,3,4. Although questions about her scientific research started when her PhD thesis was rejected because of the suspiciously high number of experiments on rats she performed over a very short period of time1,2,4, it was only until much later when her students and colleagues were unable to replicate her scientific findings, that her work started to raise skepticism. Closer inspection of her research career by the Danish Committee on Scientific Dishonesty (DCSD) will later reveal that her scientific contributions were full of manipulation and fabrication of scientific data1,2. Moreover, Dr. Penkowa was accused of
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Additionally, one of the co-authors of several of Dr. Penkowa publications was also found guilty of academic and research misconduct for failing to detect Penkowa’s manipulation of the scientific data1.
Researchers responsible of scientific misconduct:
The main responsibility of this case of scientific misconduct resides with Dr. Milena Penkowa. However, Dr. Bente Klarlund Pedersen, a colleague and co-author in several of Dr. Penkowa seminal publications, also shares the responsibility of scientific misconduct for failing to identify and expose the obvious data manipulation of some of her publications from which she herself was benefited from.
Perpetration of the
Although the scientific use of anthropometrics in not abused in modern day society, scientists still incorrectly draw conclusions from data and statistics. Many statically fallacies occur where scientists will try and bend the statistics to prove their own personal opinion. For example, a scientist may deem his new invention or product to be 100% successful, but it could have only been tested 5 times. Even though the abuse of anthropometrics has been abandoned, scientific data abuse is still apparent in modern day
Denno, D. W. (2006). The Scientific Shortcomings of Roper v. Simmons. Retrieved from : http://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/faculty_scholarship/116
Le-Nature was a Latrobe Pennsylvania based beverage maker owned by Gregory Podlucky, who is now serving a 20 year prison sentence in New Jersey’s Ft. Dix Federal Corrections Institute. Gregory Podlucky was the admitted ring leader, but in all 5 people plead guilty and another 3 took their chances at trial, where they were all found guilty as well. Le-Nature went into bankruptcy in 2006, and 3 years later they were indicted by the federal government being accused of scamming investors and banks out of more than 800 million dollars. The accounting fraud was an elaborate Ponzi scheme and financial statement fraud. Company officials created false documents, invoices, customer checks, and statements to record activity that never occurred.
The following article analysis review by Team B illustrates and identifies several examples of statistics abuse in the practical world as a result of flawed research. The following examples demonstrate how a manger could and in many examples, does make erroneous decisions due to inaccurate statistics. The team has compiled the results by detailing the respective articles.
Wendy, Zukerman. "BP Report Attacked." New Scientist 208.2780 (2010): 01. Academic Search Complete. Web. 17 Feb. 2014
One of the biggest incentives to perform scientific research is the acclaim that comes from making novel discoveries. For some, this is the driving force behind their work and can cause a conflict of interest that sometimes overrides the needs of the patient in cases with unethical actors. This is most relevant to case of John Darsee. To get data for his publications he would often falsify results and would perform experimental stent procedures on unknowing patients. Darsee’s ambitions were put above the health and wellness of the patients he had taken an oath to protect.
Taubes, G. (1995) Plagiarism suit wins: experts hope it won't set a trend. Science. 268
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