Why scientists cover up fraud

Abstract

Sir John Madox (Nature 350, 269; 1991) asks why a scientist like David Baltimore should have so vigorously defended what has now proved to be a false position. Philip Weiss raises an even broader issue in his article on scientific fraud (Ney York Times Magazine 29 October 1989), namely why "no one who was equipped to wanted to get to the truth of the matter..."

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