Men are more likely to engage in misconduct during research

The results of a study by social scientists published in the online journal of the American Society for Microbiology on January 22 showed that during the research process, men tend to commit wrongdoing more often than women.

These misconducts include forgery, misrepresentation, distortion of facts or plagiarism.

"It's not just younger men who are prone to making mistakes, but even older, truly mature men are susceptible to this condition," said Joan Bennett of Rutgers University, co-author of the study.

Illustration photo. (Source: therepublic.com)

Joan Bennett teamed up with researchers Ferric Fang of the University of Washington and Arturo Casadevall of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine to take a close look at data from the U.S. Office of Research Integrity — an organization that investigates allegations of human misconduct.

They found that of the 227 individuals sanctioned for scientific misconduct since 1994, 66% were men.

This figure far exceeds overall representation among researchers in the life sciences. And although men represent about 70% of faculty in the life sciences, 88% of these faculty commit misconduct.

“When you look at the numbers, you see that misconduct issues seem to occur across scientists’ entire careers,” says Casadevall.

According to the researchers, the level of violation of the above misconduct among lecturers was 32%, other research staff 28%, representing a total of 60% of the cases, while students accounted for 16%, postdoctoral researchers 25%.

However, only 40% of cases were punished./.

According to (Vietnam+) - VT