The Dark Side of Science
The release of the book Malscience. De la fraude dans les labos authored by Chevassus-au-Louis offers the opportunity to take a look into the dark side of science. This text consists of seven unequal length sections. After defining the nature of fraud (40% of the text), I provide an overview of its prevalence, to then answer two questions: why do researchers commit fraud, and who is tasked with detecting such frauds? The last two parts are devoted to the consequences of fraud and the way they could be prevented.