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How Are Jacies Falsified?

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Were these slides falsified?
Julia is a technician who had to work in professor Helen lab. She had some health and family problems that turned her to be dropped out from the graduate program. Despite the strong support and encouragement, she received from Helen, she was bitter, and uncooperative, and always complaining. The conflict emerged when she was working on her project using an autoradiography technique. In one of weekly lab meetings, she presented her data of two separate experiments, which were films from an autoradiogram. Interestingly, the data from two experiments looked similar, however, she noted that even when she repeated the experiments she had gotten the same results. When Helen followed up, she noticed that Julia slides …show more content…

Plagiarism on the other hand was defined as “the appropriation of another person’s ideas, processes, results, or words without giving appropriate credit”. The definition also indicated that a finding of research misconduct depends on three requirements. Firstly, “there must be a significant departure from accepted practices of the relevant research community”. Secondly, “the misconduct must be committed intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly”. Thirdly, “the allegation must be proven by a preponderance of evidence”. There are serious consequences associated with research misconduct that impact the society as well as the scientific field. A study by (Steen et al, 2011) indicated that after tracking several studies, they found that thousands of patients are put at high risk of receiving improper medication due to enrolment in flawed research (3). Although the reasons that drive researcher to commit misconduct are various, the most common are due to the competitive pressure that gives the winner all financial funds for research, tempting individuals to commit misconduct (4). With regard to the prevalence of misconduct incidents, a study by (Fanelli D. 2009) conducted a meta-analysis of survey data on scientific misconduct and notably found that 2% of scientists acknowledged to have fabricated or falsified data, while

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