Hi, my name is Jonas Lang. I have been the victim of unethical behavior in academia over several years and I am trying to do something about it. However, I have been the target of intense whistleblower retaliation and a general failure of ethical oversight. I lost my faculty position and I am running out of financial resources...

Papers online (with proof):

https://tinyurl.com/scienceeroded (or https://www.jonaslang.info/userdata/manuscript-v4-osf-rendered.pdf)

https://tinyurl.com/huelsheger

Videos: https://www.youtube.com/@anacademicjourney

Blogs: https://jonasac.bsky.social | https://anacademicjourney.substack.com | https://x.com/jwblang

ABSTRACT:

Science Eroded: Ethical Oversight Failures, Merit Exception Policies, Respect Policies, and Whistleblower Retaliation in Management/Applied Psychology Academia

The goal of this paper was to better understand why research misconduct is rarely sanctioned on the basis of a narrative ethnographic account. The account focuses on a series of events caused by a female serial ethical transgressor, Prof. Ute Hülsheger-Brülls from Maastricht University, who repeatedly manipulated authorship credits, misrepresented data to support her theoretical stance, concealed conflicts of interest with a commercial mindfulness app, and also exploited a mediation process for career advancement at the expense of others. The inductive study revealed that formal or informal exception policies (diversity/inclusion/safety/equity/belonging) based on being a minority or a minority advocate as well as vague general moral principles demanding different types of respect (civility/ professionalism/dignity/sustainability/responsibility/harassment avoidance/psychosocial risk avoidance/privacy) existed and were used to retaliate by reversing victim and offender. In contrast, well-supported fact-based complaints and attempts to comment were unsuccessful. The author suffered whistleblowing retaliation including organizational exclusion, legal threats, multiple disciplinary and criminal investigations, arrest by police, criminal charges, injury by security personnel, removal of membership and fellowship status from professional societies, dismissal from an FT50 Associate Editor position and loss of a faculty position.

Keywords: Ethnographic research, whistleblowers, Deny-Attack-Reverse-Victim-Offender, academic freedom, fairness