Author: Marcel C. LaFollette (Marcel C. LaFollette)

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The Politics of Scientific Fraud
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The Politics of Scientific Fraud

“Smuggler, embezzler, art forger, scientist.” Before the recent controversy over scientific fraud, that list might have been used on an SAT: “The first three deal in deception, the fourth deals in truth.” Today, however, science’s cultural image is not so unambiguously positive: scientists no longer seem immune from the moral lapses that can inflict people...