Fraud in science is not as easy to identify as one might think.
When accusations of scientific misconduct occur, truth can often
be elusive, and the cause of a scientist's ethical misstep isn't
always clear. On Fact and Fraud looks at actual cases in which
fraud was committed or alleged, explaining what constitutes
scientific misconduct and what doesn't, and providing readers
with the ethical foundations needed to discern and avoid fraud
wherever it may arise. In David Goodstein's varied experience--
as a physicist and educator, and as vice provost at Caltech, a
job in which he was responsible for investigating all
allegations of scientific misconduct--a deceptively simple
question has come up time and again: what constitutes fraud in
science? Here, Goodstein takes us on a tour of real
controversies from the front lines of science and helps readers
determine for themselves whether or not fraud occurred. Cases
include, among others, those of Robert A. Millikan, whose
historic measurement of the electron's charg