Yet scientists are sometimes unaware that changing an image is wrong." Many laboratories
consider photographs as illustrations that can be manipulated, and not as original data," one …

The good behavior of scientists might seem remote from the concerns of the physician. But
the practice of medicine is based on science, which means that it is grounded on the …

Journal editors are among those who must face the issue of when and how to correct the
scientific literature when an allegation or finding of scientific misconduct occurs. The author …

Congressman John Dingell's Shattuck Lecture on misconduct in medical research, delivered
in May 1992 to the Massachusetts Medical Society, appears in this issue of the Journal1. In …

Unfortunately, a single definition of research miscon-duct does not exist, although most of
them include falsification, fabrication and plagiarism. In 2000, re-presentatives of medical …

IN April the US Congress held two sets of hearings to investigate the extent of fraud in
biomedical research and the response of the scientific community to it. Clearly, some …

La decouverte de donnees fausses dans le cadre d'une grande etude americaine sur le
cancer du sein revele des problemes en ce qui con-cerne non seulement les methodes des …

CC LL of us thought very highly of this young man," said radiologist Elliott Lasser, speaking
of a junior scientist named Robert Slutsky who wreaked havoc at the medical school of the …

Early in 1985, after being questioned about duplicate data in two of his papers, Robert A.
Slutsky, MD, resigned his appointments as a radiology resident (trainee) and nonsalaried …

Scientific inquiry is self-correcting; fabricated or erroneous data are exposed when their
irreproducibility or inconsistency with established observations is discovered. Nevertheless …