Academic Scandal in the Internet Age

When a furor broke out in anthropology, e-mail was more powerful than peer review

By D.W. MILLER

Last summer, when Terence Turner and Leslie E. Sponsel received the page proofs of a book alleging scientific misconduct in the Amazon, they thought it would roil academe as soon as it was published. What they didn't realize, they say, was that the sensation was only a mouse-click away...