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 | | However, the spate of reports of cases of scientific fraud in the United States that hit the headlines in the 1980s, culminating in the much-publicized affair involving a collaborator of Nobel laureate David Baltimore, suggested that science was suffering from a veritable crime wave. |
 | | Hence, although one may have serious reservations about the motives of the expanding and sometimes messianic band of seekers of scientific fraud, and about the extent to which it occurs, there is no doubt that science has to face up to the existence of dishonesty within its ranks. |
 | | Judson accepts that editors of scientific journals have gone to great lengths to try to put their houses in order, but he is not convinced that they have gone far enough or, indeed, that it is possible for them to help eradicate these problems using the current mechanisms of scientific publication. |
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