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The Many Faces of Scientific Fraud

Everyday fudging of experimental data in laboratories cannot exclusively be explained by researchers’ desire to get an intuited result in a better-­than­-perfect form, as was the case with Mendel, or to distinguish themselves through the accuracy of their measurements, as with Millikan.

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The Many Faces of Scientific Fraud
Illustration from Ernst Haeckel’s “Anthropogenie oder Entwickelungsgeschichte des Menschen,” 1903 edition.

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