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While we depend more and more on research to make our clinical decisions, research misconduct is a malady that seriously undermines the credibility of the evidence generated. It is universal, ubiquitous and more common than we know
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• Overview on the Knowledge Management Cycle and how research fits in it
• Brief historical background on research ethics
• What makes research ethical?
• Definition and examples of scientific misconduct
• How to make your research ethical and avoid scientific misconduct?
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(In)famous cases of research misconduct
1. Teaching Research Ethics to Bioscience Students, May 2011
“You don't want to do it like that”:
some (in)famous examples of
research misconduct
Dr Chris Willmott
Dept of Biochemistry,
University of Leicester
cjrw2@le.ac.uk
University of
Leicester
http://tinyurl.com/ydwtdilt2011
2. Classification of misconduct (1)
Misconduct that distorts scientific knowledge
• Fabrication – reporting of non-existent data
• Falsification – selective reporting of data
Misconduct that misleads the scientific community
• Authorship: Plagiarism, „Guest‟ authors,
„Ghost‟ authors
• Duplicate publication
• Abuse of the peer-review process
“FFP” = Fabrication, Falsification, Plagiarism
3. Classification of misconduct (2)
Misconduct relating to human subjects
• Consent issues
• Exploitation issues (inc. financial)
Other issues
• Conflicts of Interest
• Poor record-keeping
• Failure to obtain necessary ethical approval
• Incidental findings?
4. Selection of cases for discussion
• Sadly there are plenty more cases than can be
discussed in time available
• Omitted alleged cases before 1900
• Omitted cases where there is significant minority
dissent re guilt
• Omitted cases from outside biology and biomedicine
• Have tried to balance UK, USA and other countries
• Have looked for combination of classic, curious
and contemporary cases reflecting range of different
types of misconduct
i.e. cases likely to be useful in teaching
5. Piltdown Man (1912)
http://tinyurl.com/dawsonhinton
• Report of hominid remains found
in Sussex
• “Missing link”?
• Later shown to be skull of modern
man and jawbone of orang-utan
• Fraud certain, but identity of
culprit still uncertain
- Charles Dawson?
- Martin Hinton?
Fabrication http://tinyurl.com/piltdownskull
6. Tuskegee Syphilis Study (1932-72)
• Poor African-Americans with
advanced syphilis recruited to
trial to study their “bad blood”
• Deliberately untreated to see
long-term effects of infection,
http://tinyurl.com/tuskegee11
even when treatments became
available (e.g. Penicillin)
• Over 400 men (plus families)
involved
Consent • Breach of human rights
Exploitation
(Racism)
7. Nazi doctors (1940s)
• Medical experiments conducted on prisoners
- sterilisation
- modelling of battlefield wounds and infection
- physiological response to extreme conditions
- bizarre transplantation and twin studies
• Doctors included “Angel of Death” Joseph Mengele
(escaped), plus several put on trial and hanged
• Led to Nuremberg Code of conduct for research
involving human subjects (1947)
Consent
Exploitation
8. Porton Down (1940s-60s)
• Series of experiments conducted at Porton Down,
UK Government and military research centre
• Participants thought they were volunteering for
trials to find things such as cure for common cold
• Actually exposed to LSD,
sarin, mustard gas, etc
• 2008, MOD agreed to £3M
payout to surviving veterans
Consent
Exploitation
http://tinyurl.com/portondown
9. William Summerlin (1974)
• Researching ways to overcome
tissue rejection at Sloan-Kettering
Institute in New York
• Included transplanting fur from
black mouse onto white mouse
• “Transplanted” patches actually
drawn on with black marker pen
(removable with alcohol)
Fabrication
10. Vijay Soman & Philip Felig (1978)
• NEJM sent Felig paper for review
http://tinyurl.com/soman11
http://tinyurl.com/felig11 • Felig passed paper to junior
colleague Soman
• They rejected paper
• Few months later, Am J Medicine sent original author
paper by Soman to review
• Sections clearly copied from hers, plus additional
material later shown to be made up
Plagiarism
Fabrication
Violation of peer-review process
11. Dick van Velzen (1988-95)
• Senior pathologist at Alder Hey Children‟s Hospital
• Expert in cot death, was found to have organs from
about 850 children without appropriate permission
• Struck off by GMC
• Along with scandal at
Bristol Royal Infirmary
led to Human Tissue
Act (2004)
Consent
Fabrication
http://tinyurl.com/vanveltzen05
12. Eric Poehlman (1992-2002)
• Research into ageing, menopause
and Hormone Replacement Therapy,
working primarily at Uni of Vermont
• Misconduct exposed by former lab
technician Walter DeNino
• Pleaded guilty to falsifying 17 grant
http://tinyurl.com/poehlman
applications and fabricating data in
10 research papers
• 2006, first scientist jailed for fraud
(also fined $200K)
Fabrication
Falsification
13. Malcolm Pearce (1994-95)
• Obstetrician at St George‟s, London
• Reported transplant of ectopic
pregnancy to uterus and live birth
• Colleagues at same hospital said no
knowledge of case
• Pearce tried to hack computer to
alter notes
• Also found to have invented patients
in study on polycystic ovary syndrome
http://tinyurl.com/pearce11 • Struck off by GMC
Fabrication
14. Geoffrey Chamberlain (1995)
• Linked to Malcolm Pearce case
• World reknowned ultrasound expert
• Chamberlain was Pearce‟s Head of Dept, and Editor
of British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
where both fraudulent papers were published
• Accepted “gift authorship” for
ectopic pregnancy paper
• Reprimanded by GMC
• “A considerable error of
judgement” (Wells, 2008)
Gift authorship
http://tinyurl.com/chamberlain11
15. Andrew Wakefield (1998)
• Author on infamous Lancet paper linking autism with
MMR vaccine
• Investigation for >2 years (ended May 2010) decided
he was guilty of conflict of interest, both as recipient
of money from lawyer looking for link to vaccine, and
regarding company he set up looking to market test
• Highly selective reporting of data
• Unethical dealings with children
http://tinyurl.com/wakefield11
Consent
Exploitation
Conduct of clinical trial
Conflict of Interest (financial)
16. James Wilson (1999)
• Conducted clinical trial using gene
therapy to combat OTC deficiency at
U of Pennsylvania in which Jesse
Gelsinger died
• President and major shareholder
(30%) in Genova, company
http://tinyurl.com/jwilson11
developing product under test
• Failed to report extent of adverse
reactions during animal testing
Consent
Conduct of clinical trial
Conflict of Interest (financial)
17. Raj Persaud (2003 & 2005)
• Celebrity psychologist appearing regularly on TV and
radio (including own show All In The Mind on R4)
• 2003 book From the Edge of the Couch and various
other writings including article on scientology
• Admitted plagiarism but claimed it was accidental
due to pressure of work
• Suspended for 3 months
Plagiarism
http://tinyurl.com/persaud11
18. Hwang Woo-Suk (2004-05)
• 2 landmark papers in Science reporting
production of human embryonic stem
cells via Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer
• Data fabricated and falsified
• Also obtained human eggs for research
http://tinyurl.com/hwang11 by unethical means, including requiring
female team members to superovulate
• Suspended prison sentence for
Fabrication embezzlement
Falsification
Exploitation
Embezzlement
19. Gerald Schatten (2005)
• Corresponding author and
http://tinyurl.com/schatten11
senior scientist on 2nd Hwang
paper
• U of Pittsburgh investigation
found him innocent of fraud
but said he “shirked” his
responsibility to validate results
• Guilty of “research misbehaviour”
not “research misconduct”
Irresponsible authorship
20. Jon Sudbo (1993-2005)
• Research into prevention of oral cancer at Norwegian
Radium Hospital, Oslo
• 2005 paper in Lancet raised almost instant accusation
of fabrication as it included 900 patients from
database that didn‟t exist at time cited
• Also found that second image in a 2001 NEJM paper
just enlargement of first
• Eventually 15 papers (plus
PhD) retracted
Fabrication
Falsification http://tinyurl.com/sudbo11
21. Vipul Bhrigu (2010)
• U Michigan PhD student Heather Ames
http://tinyurl.com/amesbhrigu11
struggled to get expts to work in her
own lab, but worked fine in boyfriend‟s
lab
• Suspected PostDoc Vipul Bhrigu (inset)
was sabotaging expts
• Set up concealed camera and caught
Bhrigu adding ethanol to cell culture
http://tinyurl.com/bhriguvideo
• April 2011 pleaded
guilty to destruction
Fabrication (sabotage)
22. Conclusions
Why tell students about misconduct?
• It happens, we need to be realistic
• Serves as warning: demonstrates points where
acceptable action has been breached
Would you tell so many stories back-to-back?
• Probably not, purpose today was to share a
catalogue from which suitable cases can be picked
• I use several in introductory lecture (van Velzen,
Schön, Sudbø, Wakefield, Hwang, Persaud)
• Others at relevant point (e.g. Wilson, Hwang)
23. Thank you
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