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Cranfield University example

I'm deleting wholesale a paragraph on a "recent example" cited by User:Ankababel on March 26 2012. (the diff) The user made several edits to related articles, putting in quite a bit of information about one paper that was published in 2011, and several papers refuting it, also published in 2011. There's quite a bit of original research here, based on the analysis of the editor and description of the controversy; combining that with the allegations of impropriety makes it inappropriate and unbalanced -- especially given that it was such a recent issue at the time, I find it hard to believe that this particular example is one of the best examples of "Academic integrity" (failing thereof). There's probably some useful content here, but it needs to be combed through very carefully to eliminate POV problems and original research. So I'm posting it here for some other editor to take a pass. --Lquilter (talk) 13:36, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

Institutional Academic Integrity: Research Misconduct

Due to the squeeze on public financing of universities, they have become dependent on research contracts with external organizations (governments and industry). This has engendered the temptation to sacrifice impartial truth in order to please the client who is paying for the work, regardless of the field, whenever contract research is undertaken. This type of breach of academic integrity has been noted in the pharmaceutical industry, where conflict of interest seems to be endemic.^[1] A more insidious problem arises when a university works in a broad variety of areas: the outcome of one study might be distorted (research misconduct) because sponsors of other, not directly related, studies being undertaken at the same university might be uncomfortable with the results. This is best illustrated by a recent example involving Cranfield University in England, which, since it has no undergraduates, is especially strongly dependent on industrial research contracts. The University was commissioned by the UK Department for Transport to undertake two studies^[2]^[3] concerning the worrisome problem of aircraft cabin air contamination. The first report^[2] established the methodology, which was used in the second study. This methodology was, however, strongly criticized as inadequate by independent reviewers—the criticisms are included in the report^[2]—but the study nevertheless continued with them. The second report^[3] has in turn been strongly criticized.^[4]^[5]^[6] Cranfield University gets huge sums of money from research contracts with major aerospace companies and the government,^[7] which have strong views about the problem of aircraft cabin air contamination,^[6] but these financial interests are not declared in the reports and the results of the studies clearly suit these clients’ interests. According to the European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity^[8] the reports^[2]^[3] breach integrity in several ways, including the choice of an inappropriate experimental method and failure to declare financial interests.

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[1]
Brown, J. R. (2002), "Objectivity and the Socialisation of Medical Research", Science Engng Ethics, 8: 295–308.
[2]
Muir, H., Walton, C. and McKeown, R. Cabin Air Sampling Study Functionality Test. Cranfield University (2008).
[3]
Crump, D., Harrison, P. and Walton, C. Aircraft Cabin Air Sampling Study; Part 1 of the Final Report. Cranfield University (2011).
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Murawski, J. and Michaelis, S. (2011). "A critique of recent air sampling data collected on aircraft: how much exposure to neurotoxic fumes is acceptable?". J. Biol. Phys. Chem. 11: 147–151.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
[5]
Cook, N. "Breathe easy?" RoSPA Occupational Safety Health J., November 2011, pp. 9-13.
[6]
Ramsden, J. J. (2011), "The scientific adequacy of the present state of knowledge concerning neurotoxins in aircraft cabin air", J. Biol. Phys. Chem., 11: 152–164.
[7]
http://www.studywarnomore.org.uk/documents/cranfield.pdf
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Available from http://www.esf.org/activities/mo-fora/publications.html

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