Scientific Misconduct: A Response to Davies and Fielding

• DOI: http://doi.org/10.2202/1948-4682.1166
• Author: George H Avery
• Published date: 01 June 2011
• Date: 01 June 2011

Volume 3, Issue 2 • 2011 • Article 12

Scientific Misconduct: A Response to Davies and Fielding

George H. Avery, Purdue University

Avery, George H. (2011) "Scientific Misconduct: A Response to Davies and Fielding," World

Medical & Health Policy: Vol. 3: Iss. 2, Article 12.

http://www.psocommons.org/wmhp/vol3/iss2/art12

DOI: 10.2202/1948-4682.1166

©2011 Policy Studies Organization

Scientific Misconduct: A Response to Davies

and Fielding

George H. Avery, Purdue University

Abstract

The author responds to criticism regarding his recent paper, “Scientific Misconduct: The

Perversion of Scientific Evidence for Policy Advocacy,” (Avery 2010).

KEYWORDS: scientific ethics, Climategate, scientific misconduct.

Author Notes: No conflicts of interest is declared by the author except as noted in the first paper:

"The author gratefully acknowledges Michael Cannon and David Boies of the Cato Institute for

Public Policy, who published an earlier version of this article as a Policy Brief monograph, for

their support for this revision and permission to use previously published material. The author

received a small honorarium from the Cato Institute for preparing the previous version."

Corresponding Author: George H. Avery, Ph.D., MPA, Assistant Professor of Public Health,

Department of Health and Kinesiology, Purdue University, 800 West Stadium Avenue, LAMB

106c, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA. E-mail: gavery@purdue.edu. Phone: +1 765-496-3330.