July 17, 2008

Detecting Scientific Fraud : The Chronicle Review

Dan Greenberg

Fraud, fakery, or larceny is what ordinary people would call it. But in the sciences’ refined venues the proper term is “misconduct,” and there’s a lot more of it than official figures show, according to a report in Nature (19 June), “Repairing research integrity." >>>

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