Scientific Characters chronicles the contests over character, knowledge, trust, and truth in a
politically charged scientific controversy that erupted after a 1994 Chicago Tribune …

This essay analyzes how the borders between the technical and the public sphere were
argumentatively demarcated in the B-06 lumpectomy controversy. Drawing from Thomas …

Several national and international organizations have recommended policies regarding
journal responsibilities about research misconduct in submitted or published manuscripts. A …

Patients lie, or at least research participants do, according to a recent paper by Arthur Stone
and colleagues. 1 Their patients faked entries in medication logs, as did others that tried to …

Objectives: Ethical codes, or systems, are conditioned and their enforcement is permitted by
social processes and attitudes. In occupational health, our efforts to adhere to our own …

The three claims put forward by Dr. Roger Poisson to rationalize his enrollment of ineligible
subjects in clinical trials do not justify research fraud. None the less, certain lessons for the …

Responsibility for the protection of human research subjects is shared by investigators,
research ethics committees, sponsors/funders, research institutions, governments and, the …

The choice of sites for planned clinical trials is a decision which often involves the greatest
degree of uncertainty. The purpose of this paper is to present guidelines and available …

Résumé Objectif.–La qualité méthodologique et éthique des articles scientifiques
concernant la chirurgie esthétique a souvent été sujette à caution. C'est pourquoi nous …

I was having a contemplative scratch when my friend Eric flashed me a page of The
Times,“Much ado, but monkeys fail Shakespeare test”. 1 I said, Eric, we're not monkeys. And …