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Common Rule Reform – A Botched Job

By Robert Dingwall | Published: January 25, 2017

The rush to publish a revised Common Rule for federally funded human research in the United States has created a flawed regulatory regime, says Robert Dingwall., Time to tear the whole edifice down and start over, he suggests.

Prone to Pressure: How Stakeholders Endanger the Independence of Evaluations and What We Can Do Against it

By Lyn Pleger and Fritz Sager | Published: October 25, 2016

It's self-evident that the independence of any evaluation, and the integrity of its findings, is paramount. Yet there's a a clear threat to the integrity of many evaluations: pressure from the stakeholders who hired the evaluator.

Posted in Research | Also tagged evaluation | Leave a comment

Existing Career Incentives Are Often Bad for Science

By Paul Smaldino | Published: October 4, 2016

A culture of bad science can evolve as a result of institutional incentives that prioritize simple quantitative metrics as measures of success, argues Paul Smaldino. But, he adds, not all is lost as new initiatives such as open data and replication are making a positive difference.

Common Rule Revision – The Ethics Police Fight Back

By Robert Dingwall | Published: December 17, 2015

Revisions to the U.S. government's regulations on ethical treatment of human research subjects that would exempt some experiments from direct oversight by institutional review boards are facing pushback from paternalistic guardians, says our Robert Dingwall, who don't seem to believe subjects are competent to make decisions on their own.

Deregulating Social Science Research Ethics – Clipping the Wings of IRBs?

By Robert Dingwall | Published: November 5, 2015

The Federal Register is surely not everybody’s bedtime reading. It is where the US Government formally publishes certain official documents, including advance notice of its intention to make rules that implement Executive policies. For social science researchers, one of the most important of these has long been the so-called Common Rule, introduced in 1981 and […]

Federal ‘Common Rule’ on Human Study Ethics Changing

By Social Science Space | Published: September 8, 2015

Four years in the making, a proposed version of the federal 'Common Rule' for research on human subjects includes a full suite of social and behavioral science-influenced directives that past versions of the rule lacked.

Posted in International Debates, Public Policy | Tagged Ethics | Leave a comment

The APA Colluded on Torture. What Now?

By J. Wesley Boyd | Published: July 15, 2015

The US tortured prisoners in the 'War on Terror.' That that a major health care association colluded in this, argues J. Wesley Boyd, is unconscionable.

Posted in International Debates, Research Ethics | Also tagged APA, Psychology, Torture | Leave a comment

Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury, Consider Research Ethics

By Gigi Foster | Published: March 19, 2015

Imagine an ethics review system where the researcher’s proposal is read by an 'ethics jury' of four to six researchers drawn, as in legal juries, from the academic population at large, suggests Australia's Gigi Foster.

Taking a Stick to Ethics Boards

By Gigi Foster | Published: March 3, 2015

Writing about her experiences in Australia, Gigi Foster wonders if ethics boards are more interested in ticking the necessary boxes and not upholding the standards that supposedly underlie the boards' existence.

Posted in Research, Research Ethics | Also tagged Ethics Boards, The Conversation | Leave a comment

A Primer on Plagiarism and Other Publishing Sins

By Ritesh G. Menezes, Smith Giri, Sadip Pant, Magdy A. Kharoshah, Mohammed Madadin and Burugina Nagaraja | Published: February 5, 2015

High-quality scientific literature is the cornerstone of scientific progress and is highly regarded by academia. However, Ritesh G. Menezes and his colleagues write in the Medico-Legal Journal, scientific literature is often marred by plagiarism, data fabrication and falsification, redundant publication and illegitimate authorship.

We All Have a Dog in the Fight When Researchers Lie

By Mark Israel | Published: November 7, 2014

Looking specifically at Australia, the author of the book on research integrity wonders how rampant plagiarizing and fabricating may be among researchers.

Posted in Research Ethics | Also tagged Australia, The Conversation | Leave a comment

Mission Possible: Be an Ethical Social Scientist

By Mark Israel | Published: November 4, 2014

The author of a book on research ethics for social scientists suggests that issues such as antagonism with university review boards and new complexities introduced by Big Data can make integrity a sometime elusive quality.

Posted in Research Ethics | Also tagged The Conversation | Leave a comment

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Prone to Pressure: How Stakeholders Endanger the Independence of Evaluations and What We Can Do Against it

Existing Career Incentives Are Often Bad for Science

The APA Colluded on Torture. What Now?

Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury, Consider Research Ethics

Taking a Stick to Ethics Boards

A Primer on Plagiarism and Other Publishing Sins

We All Have a Dog in the Fight When Researchers Lie

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