„Scientific fraud: from Mendel to Stapel“

Scientific fraud, or better ‘questionable research practices’, are probably as old as science itself. Nowadays, however, there are national and supranational research codes on scientific integrity, academic institutions have installed committees to investigate suspected breaches of scientific integrity, and there is even some research into scientific integrity itself. The lecture will address the relevance of appropriate research attitudes, and the risks of scientific misconduct, and discuss some actual cases, as well as the relation of scientific integrity to its neighboring fields research ethics and research waste.