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How do you stop bad scientists? Hope they committed fraud.

Misconduct vs Malpractice in Science – A Primer.

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Gary Taubes
Apr 24, 2024
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Fraud and bad science seem to be everywhere these days.

There’s the episode that led to my favorite newspaper headline of the year so far, courtesy of the Wall Street Journal: “Harvard Probe Finds Honesty Researcher Engaged in Scientific Misconduct.”  The story described the release of a Harvard investigation looking into the work of “prominent researche…

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