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The Dissenter · 2025-03-27 · 45 min · 7,437 words

#1076 Elisabeth Bik: Scientific Integrity and Scientific Fraud

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Hello, everyone, welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host, as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by Dr. Elizabeth Bick. She's a microbiologist and scientific integrity consultant. And today we're going to talk about mainly the topics of scientific integrity. And scientific fraud. So Doctor Bick, welcome to the show. It's a huge pleasure to have you one. My pleasure to be here with you, Ricardo. So let's start perhaps with some definitions or to explain some terms here, some basic terms. So where is integrity in the context of science?

Well integrity is about Honesty about uh truthfully reporting what you have found during your experiments. So And that that is actually I think for me the heart of what science should be. It's it's about finding the truth.

So we do interviews, we research, we are in the lab, uh, we Try to cure patients, but I feel when we write our scientific papers about it, we need to truthfully Report on what we have found. So

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