Sunday, March 4, 2012

Fraud in Science

Two percent of researchers have confessed to falsifying or manipulating data--fourteen percent, however, say they know a colleague who has.

Isaac Newton "fudged" numbers in Principia.

Estimates suggest 2,300 cases of misconduct among NIH-Funded researchers.

Source: Eric A. Powell. Discover magazine.  April 2012.  Page 72.