Sense of Injustice Can Lead Scientists to Act Unethically, Study Finds

Nearly a year after reporting that a large fraction of scientists admitted in a survey to having acted unethically, a group of researchers has revealed one reason: The misbehaving scientists felt wronged.

The study of the links between perceived injustice and scientific misbehavior appears this month in the inaugural issue of The Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics.

Fraudulent South Korean stem-cell research made headlines late last year, but not all

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