Nature: Lab fakery explored in interactive training tool

Release Date: January 17, 2011 This content is archived.

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An article in Nature magazine reports on a new interactive video, The Lab, which illustrates some of the ethical dilemmas researchers, graduate students, post-docs and others face in the research lab, with the aim of making research-integrity training more useful and effective. The article quotes John Richard, professor of chemistry, who in 2007 uncovered serious errors in a series of papers published by a Duke University researcher.

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