Should the government assure scientific integrity?

Integrity of scientific evaluations of government agencies.

[Guidelines for scientific integrity].

A primeira edição do Guidelines for Scientific Integrity foi ofertada a comunidade científica em 1996. A grande demanda pelos exemplares publicados levou o Scientific Integrity Committee of the Midwest Nursing Research Society a publicar esta segunda edição revista e ampliada. A importância do tema e pertinência das observações contidas neste guia nos levou a divulga-lo através desta resenha. E...

Maintaining the integrity of the scientific record.

We editors of medical journals worry that we sometimes publish studies where the declared authors have not participated in the design of the study, had no access to the raw data, and had little to do with the interpretation of the data. Instead the sponsors of the study—often pharmaceutical companies—have designed the study and analysed and interpreted the data. Readers and editors are thus bei...

The Epistemic Integrity of Scientific Research

We live in a world in which scientific expertise and its epistemic authority become more important. On the other hand, the financial interests in research, which could potentially corrupt science, are increasing. Due to these two tendencies, a concern for the integrity of scientific research becomes increasingly vital. This concern is, however, hollow if we do not have a clear account of resear...

The challenge for nursing research: scientific integrity.

The new millennium in the region of the Americas finds a number of countries actively developing the research base for nursing practice, and politically positioning nursing for greater influence in health-care decisions and for evidence-based practice. More opportunities now exist for the exchange of nurses across national boundaries, opening the possibility for testing the same research hypoth...