This is a list of short summaries of advisory opinions. The list also includes decisions. In these cases, LOWI has declared the petition inadmissible. It has therefore not examined the substance of the petition and has not issued an advisory opinion.
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- Advisory opinion 2019-17Patient complains about doctor. A conversation or discussion between doctor and patient about a scientific subject is not scientific practice. A letter from a doctor to his patient is not scientific practice either. The fact that the patient says he wants to have a scientific debate does not mean that the same intention should be ...
- Decision 2019-16The request is inadmissible because it was submitted too late by the petitioner's representative. The fact that the authorized representative is unfamiliar with the LOWI procedure does not make the term exceeding of the term excusable. Nor does the fact that the scientific research in question would be socially relevant. The LOWI does not issue ...
- Decision 2019-15Request is inadmissible because it was submitted too late. According to the LOWI, the shipping theory (Article 6:9) from the Awb is not applicable. The petition was also submitted by email. This was not allowed at the time. NB: it is now possible to submit a request by e-mail.
- Advisory opinion 2019-14In two English-language publications, the person concerned has copied substantial parts from scientific work by, among others, the applicant without referring to its origin. This is culpably careless. An important factor in this qualification is that the person concerned did not wish to rectify the English-language publications despite the advice to that effect from the ...
- Advisory opinion 2019-13Repeated complaint. The LOWI recommends that in future cases more alignment be sought with strict jurisprudence on the concept of nova. The right to complain is not intended to repeatedly submit complaints about one and the same publication with different arguments or other alleged violations of standards of scientific integrity.
- Advisory opinion 2019-12Well-founded complaint about data manipulation in various publications and parts of a thesis. The fabrication and falsification of data qualifies as a violation of scientific integrity. Scientists and others must be able to rely on the fact that all data presented by the petitioner as found data have actually been found. However, that trust has ...
- Advisory opinion 2019-11Summary to be added.
- Advisory opinion 2019-10Summary to be added.
- Advisory opinion 2019-09Summary to be added.
- Advisory opinion 2019-08Summary to be added.