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The Great Betrayal
Fraud in Science
Horace Freeland Judson
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Synopsis |
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Fraud permeates all types of institutions today and now the world of science, the last bastion of respect and trust, is no exception. Dozens of cases have been uncovered in the past quarter-century-and the headlines continue. We can no longer shrug off fraud in science as the work of aberrant individual scientists, Horace Freeland Judson argues. Instead, we must look for its causes and its remedies in the structures and cultures of the scientific institutions themselves. Judson carefully details all types of scientific fraud and how they happen; considers the self-government of the sciences, including peer review and the refereeing of papers; and exposes the failures of academic, governmental, and legal responses. He also shows how the movement toward Internet publication of papers promises remarkable new checks on fraud and suggests how we can restore and defend the integrity of the greatest monument of human endeavor- the sciences.
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Praise |
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"Judson turns an analytical light on faulty scientific practices. The persuasive results should be therapeutic to the body scientific."
Arthur Galston,
"A book certain to stir debate over both the cultural disease [Judson] diagnoses and the remedies he prescribes."
Booklist,
"Shrewd and scholarly."
Los Angeles Times,
"A nuanced and sophisticated yet accessible view of scientific fraud."
New York Review of Books,
"[A] thorough and impassioned analysis. An intriguing, and troubling, introduction to the problems that confront the practice of science. "
New York Sun,
"Compulsively readable. Medical and science authorities, who have done so little against fraud, should be made to read this book."
Stephen Lock,
"A delicious stew of scandal."
Washington Post Book World,
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Biography |
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HORACE FREELAND JUDSON is director of the Center for History of Recent Science at George Washington University.A MacArthur Fellow, he is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and has written for many publications, including the NewYorker,Time, Nature, Cell, Lancet, and Gene. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland
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General Subjects |
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Science- Philosophy & Social Aspects
Science- Essays
Science- General
Business & Economics- Business Ethics
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Academic Disciplines & Course Studies |
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Natural & Physical Sciences- General
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Social Sciences- Philosophy-Ethics
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Second Serial/Reprint/Audio/UK/Translation: Harcourt
First Serial/Performance: Rembar & Curtis
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Rights Information |
Harcourt Books
An imprint ofHarcourt Trade Publishers
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Harcourt Education Company
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