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

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Goodstein, David L., 1939-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2010.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Setting the stage
  • In the matter of Robert Andrews Millikan
  • Bad news in biology
  • Codifying misconduct : evolving approaches in the 1990s
  • The cold fusion chronicles
  • Fraud in physics
  • The breakthrough that wasn't too good to be true
  • What have we learned?