Conférencier: Daniele Fanelli, professeur invité à l'EBSI - École de Bibliothéconomie et des Sciences de l'Information, Université de Montréal.

The seminar will overview problems and initiatives concerned with scientific misconduct and related phenomena such as bias and sloppiness in research. We will look at current approaches to tackle these problems, examine whether we are facing an unprecedented epidemic of false and falsified findings, and discuss if and how scientific practices might need to be changed.

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Daniele Fanelli is a natural scientist who specialized in the study of scientific misconduct, bias and related issues, and has produced some of the largest studies to date, including one of the most popular papers published in the entire Public Library of Science, currently counting nearly 140,000 views. He is a member of the Research Ethics and Bioethics Advisory Committee of CNR (Italy’s National Research Council), and has contributed to various other initiatives against misconduct, including the Council of Canadian Academies Expert Panel on Research Integrity.