Universities Don’t Want Much Research Oversight (WSJ)

Here is a link to the excellent article. The Feds Want More Oversight of Scientific Research. Universities Are Fighting Back. – WSJ

I wrote a post The Purloined Proof (inside-higher-ed.com about how some well-known professors stole someone’s work. I reference it my comment on the Journal’s articles. Here is my comment.

I’m a former professor. I’ve seen a career almost ruined by cheaters. First, they took his stuff. Then, to avoid getting caught themselves, they enlisted big shots to accuse the person stolen from of being a cheater! People who are told about this do nothing. Who wants to get into such a fight and lose their career. (You can read the story, all with fake names, at my blog inside-higher-ed. It’s called “The Purloined Proof”.)

Now for the real problem in universities. They cheat BIG TIME in claiming to educate students. That is the worst part of it all.

All of this, cheating in research, education, football, basketball, etc… is a gigantic problem. Not doing anything about it just because there are great researchers in American universities is not good enough. Those researchers don’t need to spend their time on battling cheaters. There needs to be oversight, which will be difficult. That oversight needs to start with public knowledge.