On what is good research, from the Wellcome Trust:
http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/About-us/Policy/Policy-and-position-statements/WTD002757.htm

On research philosophies:
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/gpi/philo.htm
http://plato.stanford.edu

Real Life Methods 'Price fixing at the petrol station or the invisible hand'
http://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/deutschland/tankstellenmarkt-roesler-nimmt-benzin-kartellins-visier/4209506.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/may/16/oil-price-fixing-criminal
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-22540650
http://www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/die-krise-in-libyen-und-der-benzinpreis-das-machtkartell-1.1065504http://www.bundeskartellamt.de/wEnglisch/download/pdf/11-085_Abschlussbericht_SU_Kraft stoffe_Zusammenfassung-E.pdf

Real Life Methods 'What are the consequences of faking data in research?'
http://www.businessweek.com/stories/2001-12-02/the-real-confessions-of-tom-peters
http://www.fastcompany.com/44077/tom-peterss-true-confessions

Real Life Methods 'Blue isn't blue'
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/104/19/7780?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=color+reciognition+blue&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&resourcetype=HWCIT
http://colorschemedesigner.com