Fraud and science
Dworkin, G.
Progress in Clinical and Biological Research 128: 65-74
1983
ISSN/ISBN: 0361-7742 PMID: 6634738 Document Number: 218377
In the past decade fraud, cheating, forged experiments, and plagiarism have been discovered in fields ranging from biomedical research to psychometrics. Scientists have reacted by attempting to deny and minimize the problem. I believe that we should recognize that the phenomenon is not rare nor to be explained as a result of individual pathology. I look at some incidents in the history of science, give a taxonomy of fraud, and draw some morals about ways in which we might try to decrease the incidence of scientific fraud.