COMMENT:This book on scientific fraud focuses on publication issues such as plagiarism, questions of authorship, the review process, etc. A major flaw is the repetition of some fraud charges without acknowledging ambiguities or recent contrary work, as in the part about Cyril Burt, and the uncritical acceptance of Hoyle and Wickramasinghe's claim that Archaeopteryx fossils are forgeries.
DATE:19990628
KEYWORDS:fraud
MISC:301p.
PUBLISHER:University of California Press
SUBMITADDR:lippard@primenet.com
SUBMITNAME:James J. Lippard
TITLE:Stealing Into Print: Fraud, Plagiarism, and Misconduct in Scientific Publishing