Male scientists in biology more likely to commit fraud

http://mbio.asm.org/content/4/1/e00640-12.abstract

ABSTRACT

A review of the United States Office of Research Integrity annual reports identified 228 individuals who have committed misconduct, of which 94% involved fraud. Analysis of the data by career stage and gender revealed that misconduct occurred across the entire career spectrum from trainee to senior scientist and that two-thirds of the individuals found to have committed misconduct were male. This exceeds the overall proportion of males among life science trainees and faculty. These observations underscore the need for additional efforts to understand scientific misconduct and to ensure the responsible conduct of research.

Looking at organic food makes people less altruistic?!

http://spp.sagepub.com/content/early/2012/05/14/1948550612447114.abstract

Creative people tend to be more dishonest

http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6613.html

The Dark Side of Creativity: Original Thinkers Can Be More Dishonest

Published: February 10, 2011
Authors: Francesca Gino and Dan Ariely

• Creative students who showed a natural aptitude for divergent thinking tended to cheat more than linear thinkers.
• Creativity is a better predictor of unethical behavior than intelligence.
• Students who were deliberately induced to think creatively were, in turn, more likely to cheat than those who weren't primed to think outside the box.
• Creative people are more likely to cheat in part because their creativity helps them to come up with ingenious explanations to justify their unethical behavior.

Sperm donors father huge 'families' in Canada, United States

Sperm donors father huge 'families' in Canada, United States

In a stranger-than-fiction twist, Toronto documentary maker Barry Stevens has used his experiences -- born in Britain through a donor who then went on to sire some 500 to 1,000 children during his three decades working with sperm banks -- to fuel his own work.

Read more: http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Sperm+donors+father+huge+families+Canada+United+States/5525407/story.html#ixzz1aO4S5Gxg

"We can't exclude the possibility that children of one donor can meet and have sex, and children, and indeed the possibility that the donor himself could have sex with his daughter," said Stevens, who has made films about his search for his real father and his half-siblings.