? Scientific Integrity results fromadherence to professional values and practices, when conducting and applyingthe results of science and scholarship.
It ensures: Objectivity, Clarity, Reproducibility,Utility.? Scientific Integrity is importantbecause it prevents Bias, Fabrication/Falsification, Plagiarism, Censorship andInadequate procedural and information security? Breaches in Scientific Integrityand ethical lapses in research can significantly harm human and animalsubjects, students, and the public and Potentially endanger scientific anderode public trust. § Hwang Woo Suk Case? Hwang Woo Suk is a South Koreanscientist, once celebrated pioneering expert in the field of stem cell researchup to 2006, when allegations of fraud and research misconducts against him andsome of his colleagues were confirmed.? Egg donation: ? Hwang paid women 1400USD each fordonating their eggs, with some of the donors being members of his own researchlab. Not all of the donors received information about the serious risks of eggdonation.? This illustrates the questionablenature of his practice (possible coercion)? Breach ofscientific integrity?? 2 articles published in sciencejournal ‘Science’ in 2004 and 2005 respectively? Revolutionary claims of success increating human embryonic stem cells by cloning? These 2 articles were found out tocontain large amounts of fabricated data.
All of the data in the 2005publication was fabricated.? This was regarded as the mostscandalous research misconduct ever § Singapore Research Fraud Case? Three scientists working in topSingapore institutions and funded by major government organisations have beenlinked to scientific fraud in what could emerge as one of the biggest suchcases in Singapore.
