TY - CONF A1 - Pauw, Brian Richard T1 - The Dark side of Science N2 - We all may have started out as bright-eyed students trying to do science to the best of our abilities, but over time, some of us have gradually drifted to the dark side. The dark side of science has an impressive publication rate in high-ranking journals, good success with funding agencies, and rocks the world with stellar findings. Unfortunately, these findings aren't real, either by accident or on purpose. As the presenter and his colleagues found, trying to correct or even dispute any of these findings in literature is a supremely complex and time-consuming effort. With no recent reduction in the frequency of such false findings, it is up to us to try to stem the flow. Besides looking at examples, we need to understand the underlying driving forces behind this dark scientific movement. By combining this understanding with a refresher of the core scientific principles, we can then develop the necessary argumentative tools and mechanisms that may prevent our own slide down the slippery slope. This talk will therefore start out with several entertaining examples of probably accidental, as well as definitely deliberate, false scientific findings in literature (and in particular in the field of materials research). We will then take a brief look at the possible causes for these developments, after which some tools will be presented that can help both the fresh as well as the well-seasoned scientist to rise up against the dark side. T2 - DGM special event (invited lecture) CY - Online meeting DA - 23.06.2021 KW - Scientific fraud KW - Reproducibility crisis KW - Bad science KW - Scientific method KW - Publication pressure PY - 2021 AN - OPUS4-53274 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -