3:30–4:30 pm
Maria Goeppert-Mayer Lecture Hall Kersten Physics Teaching Center
Room 106
5720 S. Ellis Avenue
Research Misconduct - The Dark Side of Science
Elisabeth Bik, Harbers Bik LLC
Host: Peter Littlewood
Science builds upon science. Even after peer-review and publication, science papers could still contain problematic data, either generated by honest errors or by intentional misconduct. If not addressed post-publication, such papers containing incorrect or even falsified data could lead to wasted time and money spent by other researchers trying to reproduce those results. Elisabeth Bik is a science integrity forensics detective who left her paid job in industry to search for misconduct in scientific papers, specializing in duplicated and manipulated images. She has done a systematic scan of 20,000 biomedical papers in 40 journals and found that about 4% of these contained inappropriately duplicated images. In her talk she will present her work and discuss several types of science misconduct.