On Fact and Fraud : : Cautionary Tales from the Front Lines of Science /

On Fact and Fraud : : Cautionary Tales from the Front Lines of Science / / David Goodstein.

Fraud in science is not as easy to identify as one might think. When accusations of scientific misconduct occur, truth can often be elusive, and the cause of a scientist's ethical misstep isn't always clear. On Fact and Fraud looks at actual cases in which fraud was committed or alleged, e...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Goodstein, David,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2010]
©2010
Year of Publication:2010
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (176 p.) :; 22 halftones.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Preface
  • One. Setting the Stage
  • Two. In the Matter of Robert Andrews Millikan
  • Three. Bad News in Biology
  • Four. Codifying Misconduct: Evolving Approaches in the 1990s
  • Five. The Cold Fusion Chronicles
  • Six. Fraud in Physics
  • Seven. The Breakthrough That Wasn't Too Good to Be True
  • Eight. What Have We Learned?
  • Appendix. Caltech Policy on Research Misconduct
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index

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