Grey Thoughts
10.6.05
 
Science - Frauds and falsehoods
The Washington post and MSNBC are reporting a new article in the latest Nature magazine which highlights the widespread dishonesty in science. From the article
One-third of scientists surveyed said that within the previous three years, they’d engaged in at least one practice that would probably get them into trouble, the report said. Examples included circumventing minor aspects of rules for doing research on people and overlooking a colleague’s use of flawed data or questionable interpretation of data.


And we trust them because????
- posted by Alan Grey @ Friday, June 10, 2005
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