> nowadays all PhD students generally take something called “Responsible Conduct of Research”
I think that is a broad generalization. I never had to take an ethics in research course as a PhD student.
> falsifying data, plagiarism, how to ethically work in animal models ... image manipulation.
My take is that this may be a "field"-dependent class. My PhD is in a non-experimental field (math); thus, we cannot have these sorts of issues (minus plagiarism).
I think that is a broad generalization. I never had to take an ethics in research course as a PhD student.
> falsifying data, plagiarism, how to ethically work in animal models ... image manipulation.
My take is that this may be a "field"-dependent class. My PhD is in a non-experimental field (math); thus, we cannot have these sorts of issues (minus plagiarism).