International Workshop – Making it up
Histories of Research Integrity and Fraud in in Scientific Practice

Date and Venue
Date
April 12–14, 2018
Venue
English Park Campus (Centre for the Humanities), Office for History of Science, The Rausing Room (building 6, 3rd floor, room 3025)
Programme
Please Note
All papers will be pre-circulated and read before the conference. Authors get 5 minutes to introduce their papers. Commentators have about 15 minutes to discuss, followed by group discussion.
Thursday, April 12
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14:30–14:45 |
Informal welcome and coffee |
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14:45–15:30 |
Opening (Mody, Roberts, Sibum): Rationale, Programme Overview, Participant Introductions |
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15:30–16:15 |
Matthias Dörries: "Fraud and Self-regard at the Académie des Sciences" |
Mody |
16:15–17:00 |
Heather Ellis: "Defining Research Integrity in Britain’s Literary and Philosophical Societies, 1780-1840" |
Shahare |
19:00– |
Informal dinner (by invitation) at Heart & Bones |
Friday, April 13
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09:00– 09:15 |
Informal welcome and coffee |
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09:15–09:30 |
Opening |
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09:30–10:15 |
Tatjana Buklijas: "Science and Publicity in Fin-De-Siècle Vienna: The Sex Ratio Theory of (embryologist) Samuel Leopold Schenk" |
Sibum |
10:15–11:00 |
Joseph Gabriel (and Bennett Holman): "Clinical Trials and the Origins of Pharmaceutical Fraud: Parke, Davis & Company and the History of the Fundamental Antagonism" |
Franta |
11:00–11:15 |
Break |
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11:15–12:00 |
Joris Mercelis: "Defining the Boundaries of Academic Corruption: Commissioned Expert Opinions in Germany, c. 1890-1940" |
Ellis |
12:00–12:45 |
H. Otto Sibum: "When is Enough Enough? Replication and the Integrity of Scientific Research" |
Gabriel |
12:45–13:45 |
Lunch |
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13:45–14:30 |
Michael Barany: "Impersonation and Personification in Mid-Century Mathematics" |
Arbel |
14:30–15:15 |
Matthew Hayes: "UFOs and the Conquest of Gravity in Wilbert Smith’s 'New Science'” |
Mercelis |
15:15–15:30 |
Break |
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15:30–16:15 |
Mahendra Shahare: "Making and Breaking Scientific Fraud in India" |
Park |
16:15–17:00 |
Michael Pettit: "Replication in Psychology: Historical Dispatches from a Discipline on Fire" |
Barany |
17:00 | Break | |
17:00–19:00 |
Drinks at Hörnan |
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19:00– |
Conference dinner (by invitation) at PepparPeppar |
Saturday, April 14
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09:00–09:15 |
Informal welcome and coffee |
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09:15–09:30 |
Opening |
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09:30–10:15 |
Tal Arbel: "Executives of the Mind: The Moral Economy of Postwar Survey Research" |
Buklijas |
10:15–11:00 |
Buhm Soon Park: "The Sociotechnical Construction of Fraud: Reflections on the Historicity of the Hwang Case" |
Hayes |
11:00–11:15 |
Break |
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11:15–12:00 |
Geoffrey Supran (and Naomi Oreskes): "Measuring Doubt – Assessing ExxonMobil’s Climate Change Communications (1977-2014)" |
Pettit |
12:00–12:45 |
Ben Franta: "Weaponizing Economics: Charles River Associates and the Decades-Long Sabotage of Climate Policy" |
Dörries |
12:45–13:45 |
Lunch |
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13:45–14:30 |
Cyrus Mody: What Are the Patterns? (general discussion & conclusions) |
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14:30–15:00 |
Lissa Roberts: Wrapping it up (next steps, publication plans) |
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15:00 | Closing (Sibum) |
Organisers and Contact
- Willem Halffman, Radboud University
- Cyrus Mody, University of Maastricht
- Lissa Roberts, University of Twente
- H. Otto Sibum, University of Uppsala
Last minute trouble: Elin Löfgren