Another aspect of gross misconduct is people who have some axe to grind causing legitimate papers to be not published and legitimate grants to be not funded. This deviant behavior leads to the publication of somewhat goofy papers and the funding of inferior research. It also drives a lot of quality people away from science...who needs to work several years on something and have it trashed because of personal incredulity issues by anonymous "reviewers"?
This sort of thing is more serious that outright fraud, IMHO, because the fraud will be discovered and the "scientist" discredited in the end anyways...and the only career damaged is that of the person commiting the fraud. "So easy it seemed once found, which yet unfound most would have thought impossible" John Milton ________________________________________ Robert G. Hamilton Department of Biological Sciences Mississippi College P.O. Box 4045 200 South Capitol Street Clinton, MS 39058 Phone: (601) 925-3872 FAX (601) 925-3978 ------------------------------------------------------------ This message has been scanned by GWGuardian on GWGuardian.mc.edu and found to be virus free. ------------------------------------------------------------
