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That's some guts to do the right thing. Respect.
by kovac 6y ago
That's some guts to do the right thing. Respect.
- ramraj07 6y agoI was not faced with such a shitty situation, and I probably would have done the same as well, but the right thing would have been to report it.
- viburnum 6y agoIf you report it then the grant money is gone and everybody in the lab loses their job and all the PhD students are derailed.
- chrstphrknwtn 6y agoThat’s the fault of the person falsifying data, not the person reporting the fraud.
- jjoonathan 6y agoYeah but it still happens, and to people you care about who didn't deserve it.
- henriquemaia 6y agoThat's true. Several people will probably lose their jobs. But that is the kind of thinking that condemns whistleblowing for the wrong reasons. To put it differently, people rather prefer to keep on pretending if that keeps their jobs than to do the right thing. And that makes everyone a fraudster.
- nostrebored 6y agoIn most fields this is unimportant. Bad research can have significant public policy impact. Sure, it sucks for the students, but you have to introduce accountability in academia for it to stop being worthless.
- Kednicma 6y agoIdeally, yes! That would be the best outcome. I don't know why people always see dens of corruption and think that they ought to be protected, because of the jobs of the folks doing the corrupt work. Jobs are not the point of life, and we should accept that some jobs are bad jobs which should be eliminated.
- moralestapia 6y agoHuh? But he didn't ... he just fled. When I started my PhD I became tangled in a similar situation. I denounced it and it got me kicked out of that program. I had to start over, but I would do it again if the situation called for it. No amount of money or "awards" compensate for having a dishonorable life. "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing"