Scandals and Blunders in Science
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Potential Questions for Final Exam
- What are Langmuir’s symptoms of pathological science?
- What are the three types of scientific misconduct, as defined by Charles Babbage?
- What are the steps of the scientific method?
- What things can people do wrong that is scientific misconduct?
- Why do people cheat?
- What are the expectations of scientists and the scientific community?
- Why are so many frauds not caught?
- What could lead to falsification of data?
- Why do cheaters get caught?
- What is the difference between a blunder and a fraud?
- How can bias and plagiarism enter into the processes of submitting an article to a journal and applying for a grant?
- What is the ‘cheater’s personality’?
- In the Allison effect, what was (supposedly) characteristic of each substance?
- What is the experimenter effect?
- Who does the lab notebook belong to?
- What were the characteristics of polywater?
- Why are the biological and behavioral sciences more prone to fraud?
- What is chromotography?
- Given a picture of the Davis-Barnes apparatus, describe how it works.
- Describe the Allison Effect.
- What is elecrophoresis?
- Name the different species that were put together to form Piltdown Man.
- How can someone commit self-plagiarism?
- How was the secret service involved in Intuition?
- Why did Cantor hush Stafford each time stafford tried to tell him about adding buffer to the culture on Sunday night?
- Who writes and submits grant applications?
- What is a good faith allegation?
- What does it mean to sequester something?
- What is the difference between Psuedoscience and Fraud?
- Why do we not know who is responsible for the Piltdown incident?
- How can we enforce the laws governing fraud in science?
- How do politics influence scientific breakthroughs?
