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ScandalsandBlundersinScience:WikipediaProjectJennifer Muzyka, Centre College
FirstYearSeminarCourses• General Education course• Three week winter term• Fifteen students• Communication skills• Critical thinking• Active learning• Connections to wider social concerns
ScandalsandBlundersinScience
• Scientific method• Scientific ethics• Case studies
• National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science• Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Research
• Book reviews• Centre College policies
Wikipediaproject• Groups of three• Choosing topics• Finding sources• Editing Wikipedia• Presentations
Case:SilviaBulfone‐Paus• Immunologist at Research Centre Borstel in Germany• Postdoc warned Bulfone‐Paus about misconduct (fall 2009)• Trial by internet instigated in July 2010• Formal investigations (Borstel and funding agency)• Image manipulation in six papers• Bulanova and Budagian (postdocs) blamed • Six additional retractions requested • Wikipedia: orphan article
Case:Diederik Stapel• Psychologist at Tilburg University in the Netherlands• Suspended from duty in September 2011• Whistleblowers probably his students or postdocs• Fabricated data based on theory and proposed experiments• Manipulated data in earlier work
Case:DonPoldermans• Cardiovascular research at Erasmus Medical Center (Netherlands)
• DECREASE studies• Patient consent for research studies• Improper data collection• Data fabrication• Wikipedia: undue weight to controversies
Case:AnilPotti• Cancer research at Duke University• Microarray genetic analysis for personalized treatment• Data manipulation• CV claims Rhodes Scholar• Reprimand from North Carolina Medical Board• Two‐thirds of Potti’s 40 publications to be retracted in whole or part
Case:JayTravers• Entomologist• “Unusual Scalp Dermatitis in Humans Caused by the Mite, Dermatophagoides” in Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington
• Fall 2011 article in Science and Engineering Ethics• Ekbom syndrome
Unexpectedcase• University of Vigo, Spain• Juan Carlos Mejuto, chemistry• Plagiarism• Retractions• Awards• Wikipedia article review
Acknowledgements• Carrie Frey, Centre College Library• Jami Powell, Centre College Center for Teaching and Learning