Monthly Archives: June 2008

Cutting down on e-mail

By Michael Becker | Published: June 29, 2008
How big of a prob­lem is e-mail over­load? An increas­ingly big one, judg­ing by the num­ber of arti­cles I’ve read recently deal­ing with sand­bag­ging the e-mail flood. A good is exam­ple is an arti­cle in the New York Times by IBM employee Luis Suarez, who became fed up with spend­ing hours catch­ing up with e-mail [...]
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Science fraud is common and often ignored, report says

By Michael Becker | Published: June 19, 2008
According to a report pub­lished in Nature, sci­en­tific fraud in acad­e­mia is “sur­pris­ingly com­mon” but is not often reported to uni­ver­sity officials. The sur­vey of mainly bio­med­ical stu­dents showed that about 9 per­cent had seen some kind of aca­d­e­mic mis­con­duct in the past three years; 37 per­cent of those breaches went unreported. The authors sur­veyed 2,212 researchers [...]
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Image tampering increasingly common in scientific journals

By Michael Becker | Published: June 6, 2008
The Federal Office of Research Integrity says that 44 per­cent of its cases between 2005 and 2006 involved image fraud. That’s up from 6 per­cent a decade ago. According to the Chronicle of Higher Education (sub­scrip­tion prob­a­bly required), out of the 300 or so arti­cles accepted each year by the Journal of Clinical Investigation, 10 to [...]
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