GLR Interview: Greg Kuzma

Kuzma, Greg; Silet, Charles L. P.

doi:10.2307/20172664

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“…In a few instances, laws on the submission of false claims have been used to prosecute scientific misconduct, with varying results.22 Kuzma asks whether scientific misconduct is any less serious than shoplifting or forging a social security check. 23 Pressures of poverty are not considered an acceptable reason to steal food or money. Lack of criminal sanctions for scientific misconduct appears to create an elite class of persons who are exempt from punishment for cheating, stealing and outright lying.…”

Section: Expert Testimony: Bridging Bioethics and Evidence Law Summermentioning

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Off with their Heads: The Need to Criminalize some forms of Scientific Misconduct

Redman

Caplan

2005

J. Law. Med. Ethics

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Improvement in policy for the management of scientific misconduct has been slow. While assurance of due process at the ORI level is now in place, similar protections at the institutional level and institutional responsibility for further oversight and a workplace where the responsible conduct of research can be practiced have not yet been addressed. In contrast, policy regarding human subject protection has evolved rapidly to reflect firmer norms, with decisive priority given to subject protection over scientific or social needs. Perhaps because scientific misconduct policy has the potential to harm the careers of individual scientists and harms to individual subjects are thought to be indirect, the scientific community has been successful in blocking every move toward testing more rigorous regulation. The mantras that scientists can discipline their own, and the price of competitive science is some level of scientific misconduct are not persuasive. The standards by which science is judged should not be an exception to those governing others who deal with the public's money and have a duty to the public interest.

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Section: Expert Testimony: Bridging Bioethics and Evidence Law Summermentioning

confidence: 99%