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- Falsified and substandard medicines and supplements
- Research misconduct
- Vatican scandals
- (Dis)Honesty - the Truth About Lies (90 min)
Yael Melamede, Director/Producer: USA, 2015. It’s human nature to lie; we all do it! From scandalous headlines to little white lies, (Dis)Honesty – The Truth About Lies explores the complex impact dishonesty has on our lives and everyday society. Interweaving groundbreaking experiments from celebrated behavioral economist Dan Ariely with personal stories from individuals affected by the unraveling of their lies, Ariely and a team of scientists uncover our propensity to be dishonest—sometimes even unknowingly. What’s revealed is a fascinating look at the forces behind our collective behavior and the many truths behind lies. (Study guide at http://filmplatform.net.libproxy.lib.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/DisHONESTYStudyGuideSample.pdf)
- Are your eyes lying to you? Experts, Pentagon hunt for tools to detect hoax videos
Tim Johnson, June 28, 2018 Fake videos have become such a potentially disruptive threat that the high-tech research arm of the Pentagon is launching a contest in early July aimed at detecting “deepfakes,” hoax videos so realistic that they could trigger political scandal or even spark violent conflict.
- Chicago Tribune - Jackpot-fixing investigation expands to more state lotteries
Jackpot-fixing investigation expands to more state lotteries Chicago Tribune, 12/18/2015 "a lottery industry insider installs undetectable software giving him advance knowledge of winning numbers, then enlists accomplices to play those numbers and collect the jackpots. And they secretly enrich themselves for years — until a misstep exposes them."
- Conduct, Misconduct and the Structure of Science
James Woodward and David Goodstein. American Scientist 1996 (Sept-Oct);84(5):479-490 "In drafting this article, we set out to examine the question of scientific ethics in light of what we know about science as a system and about the motivations of the scientists who take part in it. The reader will find that this exercise unearths contradictions that may be especially unpleasant for those who believe clear ethical principles derive directly from the principles of scientific practice."
- How Can I Tell if I Am Being Scammed by Someone Posing as an Agent of The Nation?
Please be wary of the numerous companies that collect magazine subscriptions and renew them as a third-party agency.
- How to hijack a journal
Feature: How to hijack a journal By John Bohannon, Science, Nov. 19, 2015 Even by the standards of Internet scams, the scheme is brazen. According to a tip sent to Science, fraudsters are snatching entire Web addresses, known as Internet domains, right out from under academic publishers, erecting fake versions of their sites, and hijacking their journals, along with their Web traffic.
- Mass. Doctor Finds His Rejected Study Published Elsewhere, Under Reviewer's Name (3:40)
Here & Now, Dec. 14, 2016 Imagine working on medical or scientific research for five years, finally submitting your findings to a journal for publication, and then not just having it rejected, but also finding later that someone who had reviewed that research actually stole it and published it under their own name. That happened recently to Dr. Michael Dansinger of Tufts Medical Center. Here & Now's Robin Young talks with Ivan Oransky (@ivanoransky), columnist at STAT and co-founder of Retraction Watch, about how such a theft was possible.
- Reveal - Billion-dollar scam
Originally broacast April 2, 2016, updated Oct. 15, 2016: California’s workers’ compensation program covers 15 million workers across the state. If you get hurt on the job – fall off a ladder, for instance – it’s the system you turn to. Most employers are required to carry workers’ comp insurance, which helps cover medical bills and lost wages for injured employees. But Reveal reporter Christina Jewett has discovered serious fraud in the system after reviewing thousands of documents. They show that in the last decade, more than 80 people have been accused of cheating California’s workers’ comp medical system out of $1 billion. Jewett and producer Delaney Hall tell the story using an undercover law enforcement wiretap and the accounts of a worker, employer and investigator.
- Secret Service has paid rates as high as $650 a night for rooms at Trump’s properties
David A. Fahrenthold, Jonathan O'Connell, Carol D. Leonnig and Josh Dawsey; The Washington Post, Feb. 7, 2020
President Trump’s company charges the Secret Service for the rooms agents use while protecting him at his luxury properties — billing U.S. taxpayers at rates as high as $650 per night, according to federal records and people who have seen receipts.
Those charges, compiled here for the first time, show that Trump has an unprecedented — and largely hidden — business relationship with his own government. Trump’s company says it charges only minimal fees.
- State of Things - Cheating For College Athletes From The Outside
Cheating For College Athletes From The Outside Will Michaels & Frank Stasio, The State of Things, Feb 26, 2015