what is ethical behaviour in science research?
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Behaving Ethically in Science Research:
What does that mean? Dawn Bazely
Biology Department, York University, Toronto
My Pecha Kucha presentation 29 September 2014 Lab Meeting
206 Lumbers
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Academic (Dis)honesty
Do you remember those parts of your course handouts referring to
the York University policy on Academic Honesty?
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–YorkU website on Academic Integrityhttp://www.yorku.ca/tutorial/academic_integrity/how.html
“Academic integrity is the term used to refer to some of the most important values of the university
community. ”
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Academic honesty
Speaks to assumption that we behave ethically wrt:
Plagiarism
Fabricating data
Overall, it’s about dealing respectfully with your colleagues (supervisors, students, peers)
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Avoiding plagiarism
Cite your sources and do due diligence.
This applies to professors as much as to students.
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Tweets cited so far.
One Mapúa (OneMapua). “Promote ACADEMIC INTEGRITY. Tweet using the hash tag #NoToCheating #BeABuilderNotADestroyer pic.twitter.com/wq9AWOgqf2.” 21 September 2014, 11:04 a.m. Tweet.
Student Conduct (NCSUConduct). “.@ncstate Stick to your values, act with integrity. bit.ly/1q8IGH1 #thinkanddo #ncstate (Image c/o google) pic.twitter.com/TMTk3OzfEp.” 28 August 2014, 1:31 p.m. Tweet.
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Moving beyond undergraduate
learningThe USA’s National Institutes of Health
Ombudsman’s office has wonderful resources:
http://ombudsman.nih.gov/whatsNew.htmland tools:
http://ombudsman.nih.gov/tools.html
UPDATED 18 Sept 2016. The Field Guide is at:https://ccrod.cancer.gov/confluence/display/NIHOMBUD/Home;jsessionid=4C049B34FAE7265CE446E6E88DAEC5F9
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Pretty much all science these days is team-based and collaborative
There are frequently conflicts: it’s part of human nature
Knowing how to recognize and handle different behaviours that lead to conflict is key to professionalism and good team experiences
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Clock wise from left: from pp 45, 5 & 1 of Bennett, Gadlin & Levine-Findlay (2010) Collaboration & Science: A Field
Guide
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Personality type plays a key role in team dynamics
What’s your personality type?
If you haven’t explored this, you should
If only to find out that only about 16% of people actually think like a scientist!
Here’s results from an online personality test that I took
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Who watches for ethical behaviour?
In structured courses, profs check your writing for plagiarism, as well as grammar,
The next level of quality control is peer-review
When that fails, websites like Retraction Watch keep track
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Tragedy of the RIKEN case
stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency (STAP) paper, rejected from Science, Cell & Nature journals was eventually published in Nature, and then retracted
Dr. Yoshiki Sasai, a stem cell scientist and deputy director at the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology (CDB) in Kobe, Japan, and one of the co-authors, who was cleared of science misconduct charges, committed suicide in August 2014
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–Retraction Watchfor an analysis of the reviews, see Paul
Knoepfler’s lab blog: http://bit.ly/1ulMGFF
““Truly extraordinary,” “simply not credible,” “suspiciously sharp:” A STAP stem cell peer review report
revealed”
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The pressures to produce stunning research results in stem cell research occur in many labs, not just RIKEN: http://bit.ly/1rphA0r
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Should scientists be held to higher standards of honesty?
Richard Smith in a British Medical Journal Blog says, yes.
http://bit.ly/10bKAgB
Do you agree?