Archive for June 21st, 2005

2005-06-21

Surveying Scientists on Misconduct

Filed under: Science — Geoff @ 3:12 pm

According to a recent Washington Post article, “many scientists admit to misconduct.”

Few scientists fabricate results from scratch or flatly plagiarize the work of others, but a surprising number engage in troubling degrees of fact-bending or deceit, according to the first large-scale survey of scientific misbehavior.

The survey was sent out to “thousands” of NIH scientists and [...]

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