Academic Fraud

An Academic Scandal is widely-publicized incident or story that exposes, or purports to expose, the unethical, fraudulent, or erroneous work of a professor, researcher, or senior administrator, or which otherwise brings academia (or a particular institution or branch of academia) into disrepute. Academic scandal is related to Journalistic Fraud . See also the narrower notion Scientific Misconduct .

LIST OF ACADEMIC SCANDALS

False verifications

---Verification of the James Ossuary by the Geological Survey Of Israel (GSI) and Andre Lemair of Sorbonne University

---The verification of the authenticity of the Hitler Diaries by Hugh Trevor-Roper

Corporate involvement in academia

--- Nancy Olivieri-Apotex Scandal

---Cases involving refusal of data or ghostwriting by corporate sponsor: Blumsohn Case/P&G Kahn/Immune Response Inc Sheffield Actonel Affair

---Cases involving suppression of publication by corporate sponsor: Dong/Boots Pharmaceuticals

Academic fraud

---. Olivieri's allegations of fraud against him were dismissed by College of Physicians as inflammatory.

--- Jon Sudbø - fabricated data in cancer research

--- Michael Bellesiles forced to resign from Emory University for fabrication and academic fraud in a book he authored.

--- Fujimura Shinichi - faked archaeological finds in Japan

--- Ward Churchill - was fired from the University Of Colorado for "plagiarism, falsification and other misconduct". {Link without Title}

--- Piltdown Man - fake composite Hominid skull, hoaxer is still unknown

--- Martin Luther King Jr. plagiarism in doctoral thesis

--- Jan Hendrik Schön

--- Luk Van Parijs

--- Victor Ninov

--- Hwang Woo-Suk - fabricated data in stem-cell research

--- Ian Wilmut - admitted, under oath, 10 years after the birth of Dolly The Sheep that he was not her creator

--- Gerald Schatten authorship on a high profile publication without contributing any scientific input, misappropriation of human eggs

---Sir Cyril Burt 's twin study research

--- Morton Smith 's Secret Gospel

Academic experiments with ethical issues

--- Stanford Prison Experiment

--- Little Albert

--- Milgram Experiment

Academic Freedom

--- Biscuit Fire Publication Controversy

Misrepresentation of qualifications / ' Diploma Mill ' degrees

--- Marilee Jones , MIT dean admitted lying about her degrees.

--- Barry McSweeney , Irish government science adviser resigns after claims over a dubious PhD.

Other

--- The Sokal Affair

--- The Bogdanov Affair

--- The Orr Case

--- J. Michael Bailey see The Man Who Would Be Queen and Bisexual Erasure

--- Inflation of first year MPharm exam results by De Montfort University academics in 2004

--- E.J. Corey - Graduate Student Suicide Rate

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