> if your name is on an article, you must do your homework and know if what you are signing is realistic or not.
Definitely not the case when you're an undergraduate trying to get your foot in the door with your first paper.
Definitely not the case when you're an undergraduate trying to get your foot in the door with your first paper.
In the US, afaik, the purpose of undergraduate work is to learn the material of the field. A Phd program then teaches the student how to do research in a field and the student goes on to do actual research only then.
An undergraduate would do a research paper as independent study or a special department class I think. With the provision that advisor is doing a lot of hand holding.
So handing fake data to someone's whose effectively a complete newby and letting them process it and publish it as their first achievement, is really despicable as the article seems to describe.