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Published February 2007 | public
Journal Article

Three steps to fraud

Abstract

In every case of scientific fraud I knew of, I realized that three factors were present: the scientist was under career pressure; he thought he knew the answer, and didn't need to go to all the trouble of obeying the scientific method; and he was working in a field where reproducibility was not precise.

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© 2007 Nature Publishing Group.

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