Dan Ariely Sometimes as I decide what kind of papers to assign to my students, I can’t help but think about their potential to use essay mills. Essay mills are companies whose sole purpose is to generate essays for high school and college students (in exchange for a fee, of course). S... READ MORE>>
Nature 491,192(08 November 2012) doi:10.1038/491192d Alina Mungiu-Pippidi & Ligia Deca The global market for diplomas and academic rankings has had the unintended consequence of stimulating misconduct, from data manipulation and plagiarism, to sheer fraud. If incentives for integrity prov... READ MORE>>
The way we fund and publish science encourages fraud. A forum about academic misconduct aims to find practical solutions Peer review happens behind closed doors, with anonymous reviews only seen by editors and authors. This means we have no idea how effective it is. Photo: Alamy ... READ MORE>>
Richard Gunderman These days, students can hire online companies to do all their coursework, from papers to final exams. Is this ethical, or even legal? A colleague tells the following story. A student in an undergraduate course recently submitted a truly first-rate term paper. In form, it was ... READ MORE>>
Nick Hubble If you’ve ever wondered how a study can show something that just can’t be true, or how studies can completely contradict each other, we’ve figured it out. With a little help of course. After today’s Daily Reckoning, I hope you never believe another ‘study’. Our heartfelt congratulatio... READ MORE>>
Germany is awash in another wave of discussions about plagiarism. This time it is the Minister of Education and Research, Annette Schavan. The story about plagiarism in her dissertation broke in May, and the University of Düsseldorf has been examining the case since. Today, October 17, the comm... READ MORE>>
If you read about scientific fraud in the recent news, it would seem that there is much to worry about. It's on the rise, apparently! There has been a 10-fold increase in the number of retracted papers since the 1970's, and a number of these are due to fraud or suspected fraud. An investigation o... READ MORE>>
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