Tales of Research Misconduct

Hub Zwart (1960) studied Philosophy and Psychology at Radboud University Nijmegen and became research associate at the Institute for Bioethics in Maastricht in 1988. In 2000 he was appointed as full Professor of Philosophy at the Faculty of Science (RU Nijmegen). In 2003 he established and became scientific director of the Centre for Society and Genomics (CSG) and in 2005 he established and became director of the Institute for Science, Innovation, and Society (ISIS).  His research addresses philosophical and societal dimensions of the life sciences, notably genomics and post-genomics (synthetic biology, nanomedicine and brain research) from a continental philosophical perspective, building on traditions such as dialectics (Hegel), phenomenology (Heidegger), psychoanalysis (Bachelard, Lacan) and critical theory (Foucault). Special attention is^100 single or first author articles in academic journals / volumes and 12 books, including Understa150 international lectures, most of them invited. He was visiting scholar / professor at the Hastings Centre (NY), St. John’s (Canada), Nagasaki (Japan), Seoul (Korea) and Ghent (Belgium). With Ruth Chadwick, he is editor-in-chief of the open access journal Life Sciences, Society and Policy (Springer). He is / was involved in several international research projects and advisory boards and since 2015 he is coordinator of the H2020 project PRINTEGER (Promoting Integrity as an Integral Dimension of Excellence in Research).

• Chapter1. Introduction.- Chapter2. Conceptual framework and methodology: Lacanian psychoanalysis.- Chapter3. Phage ethics (Sinclair Lewis – Arrowsmith, 1925).- Chapter4. The toxic picture (C.P. Snow – The Affair, 1960).- Chapter 5. Crisis and credibility (Carl Djerassi – Cantor’s Dilemma, 1989).- Chapter 6. Tainted texts (Pascal Mercier – Perlmann’s Silence, 1995).- Chapter 7. The retraction (Allegra Goodman – Intuition, 2006).- Plagiarising nature (Ian McEwan – Solar, 2010).- Chapter 9. Conclusion: psychoanalysing science.