August 8, 2008
Crime and Punishment: Research-Misconduct Verdicts May Not End Careers
Just because scientists fabricate, falsify, plagiarize, or misrepresent their work doesn't mean their careers are over. Many stage comebacks. A study in the new issue of Science shows that nearly half of the faculty members and staff scientists who committed such acts during an eight-year stretch continued to publish at least one paper per year—a sign of an active research career—after they were found guilty of
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