The Great Betrayal: Fraud In Science

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The Great Betrayal: Fraud in Science
Author Horace Freeland Judson
Country USA
Language English
Subject science
Publisher Harcourt
Publication date
 2004
Media type Print
Pages 457
ISBN 0-15-100877-9

The Great Betrayal: Fraud In Science is a 2004 book by Horace Freeland Judson, an historian of science.[1] The book explains that science as a discipline is not immune to fraud, and the book surveys many cases where scientific misconduct by aberrant scientists has threatened the reliability and foundations of the scientific process.[2][3]

Style

There are 9 chapters, a Preface, a Prologue, and an Epilogue.

Chapters

PREFACE

Judson discusses the impetus for the book, the accusations of faked data in a paper published by David Baltimore and Thereza Imanishi-Kari in the journal Cell.

  1. A CULTURE OF FRAUD
  2. WHAT'S IT LIKE? A Typology of Scientific Fraud
  3. PATTERNS OF COMPLICITY: Recent Cases
  4. HARD TO MEASURE, HARD TO DEFINE: The Incidence of Scientific Fraud and the Struggle Over Its Definition
  5. THE BALTIMORE AFFAIR
  6. THE PROBLEMS OF PEER REVIEW
  7. AUTHORSHIP, OWNERSHIP: Problems of Credit, Plagiarism, and Intellectual Property
  8. THE RISE OF OPEN PUBLICATION ON THE INTERNET
  9. LABORATORY TO LAW: The Problems of Institutions When Misconduct is Charged

EPILOGUE

See also

References

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