The researcher from the Instituto do Cebra do RS and coordinator of the PUCRS Research Integrity Office, Denise Cantarelli Machado, was invited to give the opening lecture of three events at PUC-Campinas. The XXIV Scientific Initiation Meeting, the IX Initiation Meeting on Technological Development and Innovation and the I Postgraduate Meeting , which took place earlier this week.

Dom Agnelo Rossi, the chancellor, the vice chancellor, pro-chancellors, teachers and students, in addition to the municipal secretary of Economic Development, André Von Zuben, and the municipal secretary of Legal Affairs, Peter Panuto, were present.

Researcher Denise Machado spoke about “Integrity in Scientific Activity” and “Cases of scientific misconduct and its consequences”. “The work to avoid misconduct in scientific research begins when the group of researchers is formed. Older and more experienced people must guide younger colleagues, who often commit irregularities due to lack of knowledge ”, he says.

She also showed concern for science-oriented policy. “In Brazil, we already work miracles, with many difficulties to do science. And if research stops now, we will feel the consequences ten or fifteen years from now. I still hope that the current government will realize the seriousness of this and go back on the announced cuts, ”he said.