http://ivan.tubert.org/blog/archives/2006/03/11/more-chemistry-scandals The life of a Mexican yalie computational chemistry perl hacker en Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:19:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.2.1 http://ivan.tubert.org/blog/archives/2006/03/11/more-chemistry-scandals#comments Tue, 21 Mar 2006 13:45:23 -0600 343:104@http://ivan.tubert.org/blog This paper looks really fishy, I went over the supplemental info and the NMR’s are blurry scanned “photocopies” of the allegedly original spectra. This is suspicious because you should be able to include the digital version of the NMR file, which is much harder to “alter” and would be regarded as much trustworthy than a blurry printout. In this case it does seem as if this was not simply an honest mistake but more likely a desperate attempt to please a demanding advisor. The graduate school community should definitely sit down and re-evaluate how much pressure is acceptable to put on the students. If you tell them: “Either you get this compound or you will never graduate” something will eventually give and, in some instances, what gives is the ethics of the scientist under pressure. This paper looks really fishy, I went over the supplemental info and the NMR’s are blurry scanned “photocopies” of the allegedly original spectra. This is suspicious because you should be able to include the digital version of the NMR file, which is much harder to “alter” and would be regarded as much trustworthy than a blurry printout. In this case it does seem as if this was not simply an honest mistake but more likely a desperate attempt to please a demanding advisor. The graduate school community should definitely sit down and re-evaluate how much pressure is acceptable to put on the students. If you tell them: “Either you get this compound or you will never graduate” something will eventually give and, in some instances, what gives is the ethics of the scientist under pressure.

]]> http://ivan.tubert.org/blog/archives/2006/03/11/more-chemistry-scandals#comments Sun, 26 Mar 2006 15:38:11 -0600 353:104@http://ivan.tubert.org/blog Gotcha great blog going on here. Gotcha great blog going on here.

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