QUESTIONABLE ENGINEERING PRACTICES

Trimming – “smoothing of irregularities to make data look extremely accurate and precise”

Cooking – “retaining only those results that fit the theory and discarding others”.

Forging – “inventing some or all of the research data…”

Plagiarism – misappropriating intellectual property.

Conflicts of interest (such as accepting gifts.)

–   actual

–   potential

–   apparent