The morality of scientists revisited

Minerva

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 57-67

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DOI: 10.1007/BF00124201     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. Introduction to "The Morality of Scientists", Reports and Documents, Minerva, XXIII (Summer 1985), p. 274.
2. Orel, Vitezslav, Mendel (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, Past Masters Series, 1984).
3. Broad, William and Wade, Nicholas, Betrayers of the Truth: Fraud and Deceit in Science (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985).
4. Holton, Gerald, "Subelectrons, Presuppositions, and the Millikan-Ehrenhaft Dispute", Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences, IX (1978), pp. 166-224.
5. Medawar, P.B., "Is the Scientific Paper a Fraud?", in his The Threat and the Glory (New York: Harper Collins, 1990), p. 231.
6. My source for this case is an investigative report (which embodies a long interview with Dr Briggs) in the Sunday Times, 28 September, 1986.
7. The New York Times, 24 May, 1987, and 17 April, 1988.
8. My source for this case is an article in the New York Times, 23 April, 1989.
9. Friedlander, M.W., At the Fringes of Science (Boulder/San Francisco/ Oxford: Westview Press, 1995), p. 135.
10. "The Morality of Scientists", Reports and Documents, Minerva, XXV (Winter 1987), pp. 504-512.
11. Mazur, Allan, "Allegations of Dishonesty in Research and Their Treatment by American Universities", Minerva, XXVII (Summer-Autumn 1989), p. 182.
12. See "Report of the Ad Hoc Committee to Evaluate Research of Dr John R. Darsee at Emory University", Reports and Documents, Minerva, XXIII (Summer 1985), pp. 276-308,
13. and "Misconduct in Research", Minerva, ibid. (Autumn 1985), pp. 423-432.
14. Medawar, P.B., "The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice", in The Threat and the Glory, op. cit., pp. 72-82;
15. first published as a review in the New York Review of Books, 15 April, 1976.
16. Broad, W. and Wade, N., Betrayers of the Truth, op. cit., p. 153.
17. Medawar, P.B., "The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice", Betrayers of the Truth op. cit., p. 76.
18. See, e.g., Hunt, Morton, "A Fraud that Shook the World of Science", New York Times Magazine, 1 November, 1981;
19. and Broad, W. and Wade, N., Betrayers of the Truth, op. cit., Ch.
20. See also Mazur, A., "Allegations of Dishonesty", Betrayers of the Truth op. cit., pp. 184-185.
21. My source for this case is Hunt, Morton, "Did the Penalty Fit the Crime?", New York Times Magazine, 14 May, 1989.
22. Hunt, Morton, New York Times Magazine, Ibid. p. 84.
23. This case is discussed briefly in my "Rationality at Risk: Science Against Pseudoscience", Minerva, XXIII (Summer 1985), pp. 234-235.
24. Wood's report was published in Nature, LXX (29 September, 1904), p. 530.
25. Scientific American, CCLIX (September 1988), p. 19.
26. See Franks, Felix, Polywater (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1981).
27. Nature, CCCXXXIV, 287 (28 July, 1988).
28. Scientific American, op cit.
29. Perutz, M.F., "Lab Lib", London Review of Books, 19 April-2 May, 1984, p. 7.
30. Close, Frank, Too Hot to Handle: The Story of the Race for Cold Fusion (London: W.H. Allen, 1990) p. 326.
31. Wade, Nicholas, "Stone Cold", London Review of Books, XIII (29 August, 1991), p. 20.
32. Scientific American, CCLXVI, 6, June 1992, p. 20.
33. Medawar, P.D., "Scientific Fraud", Scientific American op. cit., p. 64.
34. Morrison, Philip, Nothing is Too Wonderful to be True (Woodbury, NY: American Institute of Physics Press, 1995), p. 59.