How Journalists Can Effectively -- And Safely -- Report on Scientific Fraud
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AHCJWashington, DC, October 2015
Ivan OranskyCo-founder, Retraction Watch
Executive Director, The Center For Scientific IntegrityVice President, Global Editorial Director, MedPage TodayDistinguished Writer In Residence, New York University
@ivanoransky
How Journalists Can Effectively – And Safely – Report on Scientific Fraud
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Agenda
• Love The New World• Find The Documents• Set Up Alerts• Learn The Law
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Outside observers were, however, more thorough than the faculty in assessing the problems with Toth’s studies. “Subsequently, Retraction Watch identified other questionable data” and a complaint triggered a university “Committee of Investigation” process that began in May 2013, MacQueen said.
The committee concluded in March 2014 that “Toth did not have appropriate oversight of the data coming out of his lab,” said MacQueen. “The result was a finding of a breach of research integrity.”
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File Public Records Requests
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File Public Records Requests
But a copy of an internal Harvard report released to the Globe under the Freedom of Information Act now paints a vivid picture of what actually happened in the Hauser lab and suggests it was not mere negligence that led to the problems.
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Sites To Check
• Google alerts for “retraction,” misconduct,” and “fraud”
• PubMed alerts for “retraction” at institutions of interest
• Scan journal TOCs for retractions that mention some kind of manipulation, etc.
• Office of Research Integrity: http://ori.hhs.gov/case_summary (and Federal Register)
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Sites To Check
• Retraction Watch! http://retractionwatch.com• Seriously, collaborate.
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Beware of Lawyers
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Contact Info/Acknowledgements
oransiØ[email protected]
http://retractionwatch.com
@ivanoransky
Thanks:
The MacArthur Foundation
The Arnold Foundation
Nancy Lapid, Reuters Health