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Elisabeth Bik - Misconduct in Scientific Papers: Plagiarism, Fabrication, and Falsification

Bay Area Skeptics
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Science builds upon science. Inaccuracies in scientific papers - either as the result of honest mistakes or intentional - can make other researchers follow the wrong leads. Research misconduct includes plagiarism, manipulation, or omitting data that does not fit a hypothesis. Here, I will present some examples of research misconduct, such as image duplication and manipulation in scientific papers, and predatory publishers, which publish research with little or no peer review. I will also discuss how science vigilantes, including myself, try to fight science misconduct by reporting flawed papers to journal editors, institutions, and on social media. Dr. Elisabeth Bik received her PhD at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. She worked for 15 years in the School of Medicine at Stanford, where she studied the microbiomes of humans and marine animals. In May 2014, she founded Microbiome Digest, an almost daily compilation of scientific papers in  …...more
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Intro

0:00

Science: the good, the bad, the ugly

2:32

Publish or Perish?

5:03

Definition of Research Misconduct

6:07

Research misconduct: Plagiarism

8:45

Plagiarism in a review paper

9:35

Another example of plagiarism

11:39

Plagiarism in Science Papers

12:48

Research falsification #1: Andrew Wakefield

15:18

Research falsification #2: Haruko Obokata

17:31

Research fabrication: Diederik Stapel

20:25

Inappropriate image duplication

22:37

Biology research images should be unique

26:06

Type 2: Repositioned image duplication

28:45

Type 3: Image alteration

30:21

Spot the overlapping panels

32:21

Is all science corrupt? Most papers are OK!

33:35

Predatory Publishers

36:57

Predatory Conferences

42:16

SciGen to expose fake conferences/journals

43:57

Fake Peer Reviews and Affiliations

45:14
Elisabeth Bik - Misconduct in Scientific Papers: Plagiarism, Fabrication, and Falsification
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2020Apr 10
Science builds upon science. Inaccuracies in scientific papers - either as the result of honest mistakes or intentional - can make other researchers follow the wrong leads. Research misconduct includes plagiarism, manipulation, or omitting data that does not fit a hypothesis. Here, I will present some examples of research misconduct, such as image duplication and manipulation in scientific papers, and predatory publishers, which publish research with little or no peer review. I will also discuss how science vigilantes, including myself, try to fight science misconduct by reporting flawed papers to journal editors, institutions, and on social media. Dr. Elisabeth Bik received her PhD at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. She worked for 15 years in the School of Medicine at Stanford, where she studied the microbiomes of humans and marine animals. In May 2014, she founded Microbiome Digest, an almost daily compilation of scientific papers in the rapidly growing microbiome field. From 2016-2018, she worked at uBiome as a Science Editor, and later as the Scientific and Editorial Director. In 2018, she joined Astarte Medical as their Director of Science. In March 2019, she became a Microbiome and Science Integrity consultant. She can often be found discussing science papers on Twitter at @MicrobiomDigest, or searching the biomedical literature for inappropriately duplicated or manipulated photographic images and plagiarized text.

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