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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. Image File history File links Information. ... Plato is credited with the inception of academia: the body of knowledge, its development and transmission across generations. ... A scandal is a widely publicized incident involving allegations of wrong-doing, disgrace, or moral outrage. ... Journalistic Fraud book cover Journalistic Fraud: How The New York Times Distorts the News and Why It Can No Longer Be Trusted is a book by Bob Kohn with a thesis similar to that of Bernard Goldbergs Bias. ... Scientific misconduct is the violation of the standard codes of scholarly conduct and ethical behavior in professional scientific research. ...

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
  • Gideon Koren reprimanded for misconduct after he admitted he was the author of a series of intimidating anonymous letters (CBC Report of 1999) directed at other doctors at the hospital in association with the Nancy Olivieri-Apotex scandal. 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 - has been recommended for dismissal as a professor for fabrication, falsification, and plagiarism.
  • 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

The James Ossuary is a sepulchral urn for containing bones, which was found in Israel in 2002 and was claimed to have been the ossuary of James, the brother of Jesus. ... ... Hitlers Diaries Discovered (Stern) In April 1983, the German news magazine Stern published extracts from what purported to be the diaries of Adolf Hitler, known as the Hitler Diaries, which were subsequently exposed as forgeries. ... Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton (January 15, 1914 – January 26, 2003) was a notable historian of Early Modern Britain and Nazi Germany. ... Gideon Koren, MD, FACMT, FRCP(C) (born 1947) is a Canadian pediatrician, clinical pharmacologist, and toxicologist. ... Photo:Tidsskrift for den norske legeforening Jon Sudbø (born May 3, 1961) is a dentist, consultant oncologist and medical researcher at The Norwegian Radium Hospital in Oslo, Norway. ... Michael Bellesiles is the author of Arming America: Origins of a National Gun Culture, a book which ignited passions on both sides of the gun control debate with its central argument: that guns were uncommon in early America and were of little use. ... Fujimura Shinichi (b. ... The portrait painted by John Cooke in 1915. ... A hominid is any member of the biological family Hominidae (the great apes), including the extinct and extant humans, chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans. ... King at a speech Authorship issues concerning Martin Luther King, Jr. ... Jan Hendrik Schön Jan Hendrik Schön (born 1970) is a German physicist who briefly rose to prominence after a series of apparent breakthroughs (recipient of Otto-Klung-Weberbank Prize for Physics in 2001, Braunschweig Prize in 2001 and Outstanding Young Investigator Award of the Materials Research Society in... Luk Van Parijs was an associate professor of biology in Massachusetts Institute of Technologys Center for Cancer Research. ... Victor Ninov was a researcher in the nuclear chemistry group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory who was alleged to have fabricated the evidence used to claim the creation of ununoctium and ununhexium. ... Hwang Woo-suk (황우석) (born 29 January 1953) is a South Korean biomedical scientist. ... Ian Wilmut (born July 7, 1944) is an English embryologist and currently leading the Research Institute for Medical Cell Biology at the University of Edinburgh. ... Dolly (July 5, 1996 – February 14, 2003), a ewe, was the first mammal to have been successfully cloned from an adult somatic cell. ... Gerald P. Schatten is a stem cell researcher at the University of Pittsburgh. ... Sir Cyril Lodowic Burt (March 3, 1883 – October 10, 1971) was a prominent British educational psychologist. ... Morton Smith (1915 May 29, Philadelphia, - 1991 July 11, New York City) was a Professor of Ancient History at Columbia University in New York City. ... The Stanford prison experiment was a psychological study of the human response to captivity, in particular to the real world circumstances of prison life and the effects of imposed social roles on behavior. ... The Little Albert experiment was an experiment showing empirical evidence of classical conditioning. ... The experimenter (V) orders the subject (L) to give what the subject believes are painful electric shocks to another subject (S), who is actually an actor. ... Academic freedom is the freedom of teachers, students, and academic institutions to pursue knowledge wherever it may lead, without undue or unreasonable interference. ... The Biscuit Fire publication controversy refers to an academic scandal which occurred in January 2006, when the U.S. Forest Service and a group of professors (including six at the Oregon State University College of Forestry), wrote a letter to the prestigious scientific journal Science requesting that a controversial forestry... A diploma mill (also known as a degree mill) is an organization which awards academic degrees and diplomas with very little or no academic study and without recognition by official accrediting bodies. ... Marilee Jones (born June 12, 1951) is a former dean of admissions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the co-author of the popular guide to the college admission process, Less Stress, More Success: A New Approach to Guiding Your Teen Through College Admissions and Beyond (American Academy... The Sokal Affair was a hoax by physicist Alan Sokal on the editorial staff and readership of a leading journal in the academic humanities. ... The Bogdanov Affair is an academic dispute regarding a series of theoretical physics papers written by French twin brothers Igor and Grichka Bogdanov (or Bogdanoff). ... Sydney Sparkes Orr was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tasmania and the centre of the Orr case, a celebrated academic scandal of the 1950s. ... John Michael Bailey is a professor in the Department of Psychology at Northwestern University. ... The Man Who Would Be Queen: The Science of Gender Bending and Transsexualism is a controversial 2003 book by J. Michael Bailey, published by Joseph Henry Press. ... Bisexual erasure is a manifestation of biphobia characterized by dismissing, ignoring, removing or misstating/misidentifying references to bisexual people in the historical record, academic materials, the news media, and other primary sources. ... De Montfort University (DMU) is one of two universities situated in the city of Leicester, England. ... Elias James Corey (born July 12, 1928) is an American organic chemist. ...

See also

• Plagiarism
• Problematic physics experiments
• Retraction
• Scientific misconduct
• J. Michael Bailey

Plagiarism (from Latin plagiare to kidnap) is the practice of claiming, or implying, original authorship or incorporating material from someone elses written or creative work, in whole or in part, into ones own without adequate acknowledgement. ... There are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ... A retraction is a public statement that confirms that a previously made statement was incorrect, invalid, or morally wrong. ... Scientific misconduct is the violation of the standard codes of scholarly conduct and ethical behavior in professional scientific research. ... John Michael Bailey is a professor in the Department of Psychology at Northwestern University. ...

External links

• Several links relating to the Nancy Olivieri-Apotex scandal: [1] [2] [3][4][5]
• Stealth scandal: Scientific Researchers Routinely Fudge Citations