Falsification and Fabrication

Responsible Authorship: A module covering ethical issues that arise in publishing research individually, collaboratively, and as a student in various fields.
Data Selection, Legitimate or Illegitimate?: A graduate student intentionally omits some of his research data.
Engineer's Duty To Report Data Relating to Research: Convinced of the soundness of his report, an engineer decides to omit references to the ambiguous data.
Testing by a CO-OP Student.: Jack Jacobs, an engineering co-op student from a State University, "fudges" the data, causing catastrophic failure.
Protection from Proposal Idea Scooping?: A post-doctoral student is nervous about a peer review of her previously unpublished methods and data. She decides to introduce an error to the methods.
Sherry's Secret: A doctoral student is working on her dissertation. She begins a paper for publication with three months more research needed. The doctor in charge of the lab fabricates data in order to finish the paper sooner so that he will receive a grant that will keep the lab open.
Truth or Consequences: Peter and Sally are graduate students in a lab. Peter is afraid that Sally has fabricated data after a mix-up in the mice they were using in research occurred.

Relevant Literature on this Topic

Whitbeck, Caroline. 1998. Ethics in Engineering Practice and Research: New York: Cambridge University Press. Other keywords for this article: ethics and prudence; preferences vs. values; negligence; trust, distrust; ambiguity; moral ambiguity; responsibilities, general; professional responsibility; public safety; worker safety; laboratory safety; design process; engineering competence; environmental issues, global; environmental issues, chemical; conflict of interest; ethical codes and guidelines from professional societies; harassment, sexual harassment and aggression; workplace relationships; research misconduct; plagiarism; authorship; human subjects in research; animals in scientific research.