Ethics
7 chapters SEH
Hervé Maisonneuve, MD
EASE, Blankenberge
September 24, 2013
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Fraud is not French!
Ethics: 7 chapters
• Dealing with fraud, Elizabeth Wager
• Images in figures: quality control and managing illegitimate image
manipulation, David L. Vaux
• Conflicts of interest in biomedical publications, Hervé Maisonneuve,
Marc A. Rodwin
• Editors and commercial companies, Elizabeth Wager
• Plagiarism, Karen Shashok
• Reporting guidelines: a tool to increase completeness, transparency, and
value of health research published in your journal, Iveta Simera
• Basic statistical reporting for articles published in clinical medical
journals: the Statistical Analyses and Methods in the Published
Literature, or SAMPL guidelines Thomas A. Lang, Douglas G. Altman
The players: do they know what is
scientific integrity?
Authors
Reviewers
Editors
Publishers
Readers
Authors: ghosts, honorary, etc..
Fraud in anesthesia: nearly 300
retractions for S Reuben, J Boldt, Y Fujii
Authors: publish or perish
Is blind peer-review ethical?
Editors
Publishers
Readers
Open access: do APCs change the
game?
Gold?
Green?
Hybrid?
Opaque?
Predators: more than 300 publishers?
Is good practices’ training effective?
• Courses
• Mentoring
• Posters
• Guidelines
• Scientfic integrity: a
daily practice?
• Culture of integrity
How to improve reporting?
How to promote integrity?
How to lie to everyone
– Especially ourselves
• Professor of psychology and
behavioral economics, Duke
University
• Director of the Center for
advanced hindsight
8 year old Jimmy comes home
from school with a note from
his teacher that says, ‘Jimmy
stole a pencil from the student
sitting next to him’. Jimmy’s
father is furious. He goes to
great lengths to lecture Jimmy
and let him know how
disappointed he is, and he
grounds the boy for 2 weeks.
‘And just wait until your mother
comes home!’ he tells the boy
ominously.
Dan Ariely, page 31
Finally he concludes,
‘Anyway, Jimmy, if you need
a pencil, why didn’t you just
say something? Why didn’t
you simply ask? You know
very well that I can bring
you dozens of pencils from
work.’
A visibly upset man goes to see
his rabbi one day and says,
‘Rabbi, you won’t believe what
happened to me! Last week,
someone stole my bicycle from
synagogue!’ The rabbi offers a
solution: ‘Next week come to
services, sit in the front row, and
look at the people behind you.
When we get to ‘Thou shalt not
steal,’ see who can’t look you in
the eyes and that’s your guy.’
Dan Ariely, page 39
At the next service, the
rabbi waits for the man,
and asks him, ‘So, did it
work?’
‘Like a charm’ the man
answers.
‘The moment we got to
‘Thou shalt not commit
adultery’, I remembered
where I left my bike’
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