Okay, perhaps attack is the wrong word - but I thought this might start some interesting conversation - especially if there are some music fans on this forum. See link to article below:http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/

I hate stories like this. I understand the pressure, but it's just more ammo for people to throw at academics. Gah!

Ex-UB researcher charged with hiring actors for fake testimony

By Dan Herbeck
Published: February 16, 2010, 1:06 pmA former researcher at the University at Buffalo was criminally charged today with using actors to portray ( Read more... )

Today's post on differenceblog discusses the case of James David Lieber, who was sanctioned on Monday for falsifying research in a UCLA study on gender differences in opiate addicts. Are there gender differences in academic and research misconduct? Some studies suggest that female researchers hold themselves to stricter codes of ethics, while others are ( Read more... )

My background is in fairly straightforward interview and focus group research methods. I'm just starting a project where I ask participants to take photographs (disposable camera) of a particular occasion, and then talk me through the pictures in an interview. I'm writing my consent forms and information sheet, and I'm getting a bit stuck because ( Read more... )

Ah, the never-ending argument of teaching vs. research. There was an interesting article in the NY Times about it today.

Harvard Task Force Calls for New Focus on Teaching and Not Just Research
By SARA RIMER
Published: May 10, 2007CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 8 - Joshua Billings, 22, says he did not come to Harvard for the teaching ( Read more... )

Somewhat apropos of the earlier post on revisionist history, but more because I've been wondering lately about the science of history. I hope this is not irrelevant to the community. Preface: This is going to come off as naive, but I'm not a student of history (last took it in tenth grade), and haven't thought that much about all this. Anyway ( Read more... )

There was an article about IRBs on the front page of the Times yesterday. I haven't run up against mine yet, but I'm sure I will in the not-so-distant future. The article seemed a little biased, but I thought I'd post it here to see what you all think.

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Can anyone give advice on survey hosting services for social science data collection that meet the following criteria ( Read more... )

I have been trying to work on my MA essay for a few months, but the data have been particularly uncooperative. I'm a political scientist studying ethnicity in Eastern Europe, and none of the major surveys really address the topic quite well. I've pretty much wasted my entire summer moving from dataset to dataset on an unholy quest for something I ( Read more... )

Firstly (briefly) I'm a research fellow/lecturer at an Australian university, teaching in IS (Web usability & Internet technologies) and two thirds of the way through my PhD in information retrieval on the World-wide Web.  This post regards my PhD research.

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