Unit 7 Section A Dishonoring the Honor System Fred Guterl,,Cultural Background,In May 2002, Bell Labs appointed Professor Malcolm Beasley of Stanford University to chair a committe to investigate possible scientific fraud. On September 25, 2002, the committe publicly released details of 24 allegations of misconduct. They found that Jan Hendrik Schön misrepresented data 16 times, publishing identical charts to support his thesis in several scientific papers with different experiments.,Cultural Background,Bell Labs fired Jan Hendrik Schön on the day. Yet the Schön scandal provoked discussion in the scientific community about the degree of responsibility of coauthors and origality of papers. It was disturbing that none of Schön's misrepresentations were caught by the peer review process.,Preparing to Read,What was your purpose of publishing the artricle? How do you understand the phrase “Publish or perish“? What are the most important scientific journals in the world? Is there any scientific scandals in your academic circle? Do you think the journal Impact Factor can evaluate the quality of research? Refer to the introduction and questions on page 228, and oral practice on page 239.,Study of the Text,1. Introduction (Paragraph1-2) Who are involved in the scientific scandals in the text? German physicist Jan Hendrik Schön and the South Korean researcher Hwang Woo Suk were found to have fabricated data. hubris: excessive pride and arrogance that leads to one's downfall. arbiter: sb. who can make a judgement or settle a dispute.,Study of the Text,2. Body: (Paragraph3-7) Why are the Big Two more influential than other journals? (Para.3-4) What are scientists' attitudes toward them? (Para.5)whim: idea based on impulse What is the process to evaluate a manuscript? Why is it difficult for them to spot cheating? (Para.6-7) Two of its Board of Reviewing Editors, peer review, three stem-cell experts, editor-in-chief Donald Kennedy,3. Conclusion: (Paragraph 8-9),What are editors and scientist more worried about? The myriad smaller infractions. Can journals take stronger measures to spot instances of fraud? Why? .it’s unlikely that the journals are going to take markedly stronger measures to vet manuscripts. .it’s difficult to see what they could do to make science beyond the honor system.,Translation,,,,。