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- Published on: 18 February 2002
- Published on: 11 February 2002
- Published on: 18 February 2002Re: Bad behaviour does not equal research fraudDear Editor,Show More
Professor Williamson makes a valid point about the term "research fraud" and I agree that the term covers a number of different categories of unethical behaviour. I also pointed out that "Research fraud can take many forms" in the discussion section of my paper. For the purposes of my article I stated that consultants who had answered "Yes" to questions 1,2 or 3 of table 1 had reported "observed misconduct" and...
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None declared. - Published on: 11 February 2002Bad behaviour does not equal research fraudDear Editor,Show More
I was not impressed by Dr Geggie’s article offering a survey of the attitudes of newly appointed consultants towards research fraud (J. Med. Ethics 2001; 27:344-346). Indeed, by mixing up categories of misconduct from what is at most “bad behaviour” to the very serious, he is not entirely beyond reproach himself. I remind readers that Dr Geggie suggested that 55.7% of the respondents had observed (from the tit...
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