Peter Hogan And Sally Wheeler

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Peter Hogan and Sally Wheeler are research graduate students who are studying the SLAM gene effect in knockout mice. Sally was added to Peters experiment by Dr. Larson because her research was not going as planned. While preforming the research Sally mentions there might have been a mix up with the blood samples because she was not receiving the same data she did during the initial testing and after what seemed to be just an accidental mix up Peter realized that Sally might have fabricated the blood test data ruining the entire experiment. The problem Peter is having is whether or not he should add Sally’s data to the published research case. The case of Peter Hogan and Sally Wheeler is one that is complicated due to previous bias before the experiment had ever taken place since Peter already did not approve of Sally’s work ethics. If the data was fabricated though then …show more content…

Larson are that research conducted by graduate students is correct and by no means fabricated or altered to fit their hypotheses. This is meaning that the procedure written up by Sally should be able to be replicated and that who ever is rerunning the experiment should get the same data. As stated in this case Sally did not have a proper procedure written for her second test in order to verify what she had initially done meaning that those expectations are in fact already met. It is also expected that if there were a mix up in the lab that the researcher under the head researcher should have listened to their instructions and kept the remaining blood for further testing in order to avoid this scenario at all. Expectations set by first-rate postdoctoral programs and publishers are similar to that of the University and Dr. Larson but also that the data would not be submitted until it could be replicated by any one who was interested in doing so and that all information was verified and correct to the best of all researchers

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