Science is not a motivator for bad behavior (other than some minor
scientific fraud cases).
I've never understood scientific fraud to be a crime — I've never heard of criminal prosecutions for typical
scientific fraud cases, so it seems unlikely that this would ever be a criminal case.
Not exact matches
The story, Goodman told Next Wave in an interview, is not a whodunit but a «mystery of character» that untangles a
case of purported
scientific fraud.
Plenty of
cases of
scientific fraud have been spotted that way.
None of this rises to
scientific misconduct or
fraud, not even close, and no one has even made such a
case, despite the ample noise in the blogosphere.
In no
cases, has any convincing evidence of
fraud arisen, and his
scientific work has been broadly supported by later studies.
Meanwhile, the vast majority of climate scientists still agree the data on global warming is solid, despite the setback of «Climategate» — a set of highly controversial, private e-mails among climate researchers that were hacked from a university server that point to possible
cases of misconduct and that climate skeptics have touted as the «smoking gun» against climate change, though no
scientific fraud was revealed.
The issue in the Mann
case is the allegation of
scientific fraud.
In Part 1 I discussed several
cases of intentional and deliberate
scientific fraud.
The allegations of intellectual and
scientific fraud like those made against Dr. Mann are serious against anybody involved in academics, but the impact in this
case is significantly elevated.
In this
case, you have the UN hyping what is perhaps the biggest
scientific fraud of all time.
yes, its something of an honour system, but most
cases of
scientific fraud have been in medical research (where the big money is...) and not in the physical sciences.