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47.2% of a group of 284 researchers sanctioned by the U.S. Office of Research Integrity for misconduct (such as plagiarism or falsifying data) between 1992 and 2016 continued to be involved in research. 8% went on to receive National Institutes of Health funding:

Many believe that once a scientist is found guilty of research misconduct, his or her scientific career is over. But a new study suggests that, for many U.S. researchers judged to have misbehaved, there is such a thing as a second chance. Nearly one-half of 284 researchers who were sanctioned for research misconduct in the last 25 years by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the largest U.S. funder of biomedical research, ultimately continued to publish or work in research in some capacity, according to a new analysis. And a small number of those scientists—17, to be exact—went on to collectively win $101 million in new funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Those numbers "really surprised" Kyle Galbraith, research integrity officer at the University of Illinois in Urbana and author of the new study [DOI: 10.1177/1556264616682568] [DX], published earlier this month by the Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics. "I knew from my work and reading other studies that careers after misconduct were possible. But the volume kind of shocked me," he says.

Is it ethical to keep empirical research on human research ethics behind a paywall?

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