June 17, 2005

Scientific Misbehavior Is Rampant, Study of 3,000 Researchers Finds

By RICHARD MONASTERSKY

A survey of more than 3,000 scientists revealed that a large fraction are acting in ways that could compromise the integrity of research, according to a study published in Nature last week.

A third of participants acknowledged that they had engaged in actions such as overlooking others' use of flawed data, failing to present data contradicting one's own work, and circumventing minor aspects of human-subject requirements.

While those actions don't rise to the level of fraud,

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