“Scientific integrity is the condition resulting from adherence to professional values and practices when conducting, reporting, and applying the results of scientific activities that ensures objectivity, clarity, and reproducibility, and that provides insulation from bias, fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, inappropriate influence, political interference, censorship, and inadequate procedural and information security.”
“As the scientific enterprise evolves, all stakeholders in the scientific community have an ethical obligation to place a high priority on instilling and championing the highest standards of scientific integrity in these new settings and applications.”
The Institute of Defense Analysis (IDA) Science and Technology Policy Institute (STPI) conducted a review of 24 Federal agency scientific integrity policies, to identify potential good practices for meeting or exceeding the principles identified in the 2010 OSTP Memorandum on Scientific Integrity, and to suggest ways of strengthening the policies to reflect current interests and developments.
The American Meteorological Society’s Washington Forum, by offering the session, Truth in Science: Ensuring Scientific Integrity is taking up the last recommendation from the IDA report that was issued in December 2016. It said: [There should be] further discussion regarding what constitutes scientific integrity: A topic worthy of further collective consideration is the variation in agencies’ definition and use of the term “scientific integrity.”
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