Word: entrapments
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...falsifying data lay outside our moral universe. The least you could do as a scientist was record exactly what you observed (in ink, in notebooks that never left the lab). The most you could do was arrange the experimental circumstances so as to entrap the elusive It and squeeze out some small confession: This is how the enzyme works, or the protein folds, or the gene makes known its message. But always, and no matter what, you let It do the talking. And when It spoke, which wasn't often, your reward, as one of my professors used...
Some of the accused have charged the police with grandstanding and entrapment. Says Sue Laybe, a legislator who has been charged with taking $24,960 in bribes: "Neither I nor any of my co-defendants had any intention or predisposition to take illegal contributions. It is shocking that hundreds of thousands of dollars of city money would be spent trying to entrap honest politicians." Shocking indeed...