Dec 22 2012: The current evidence of research fraud may provide a serious under-estimate of the problem. We are assuming that once a research institute discovers that it is employing a fraudster, it will take corrective action.
But fraud damages an institute’s reputation. So there is a strong temptation to bury fraud instead of exposing it.
Detecting this institutional or “meta-fraud” is particularly difficult because of our wishful thinking that research institutes as collective bodies are honest. We must break out of this mindset in order to defend the integrity of science.
An example of meta-fraud and the mindset that prevents its exposure is presented at
www.cheshire-innovation.com/sali/pedsali.htm
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But fraud damages an institute’s reputation. So there is a strong temptation to bury fraud instead of exposing it.
Detecting this institutional or “meta-fraud” is particularly difficult because of our wishful thinking that research institutes as collective bodies are honest. We must break out of this mindset in order to defend the integrity of science.
An example of meta-fraud and the mindset that prevents its exposure is presented at
www.cheshire-innovation.com/sali/pedsali.htm