Word: fraud
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...topic of authorship in science has quite a lot of relevance today, especially because of the issue of fraud in science," Biagioli said...
...said that the large number of fraud cases over the past 10 years, and the complexity of assigning responsibility, has caused much debate over the definition of an author...
...they known that Hubbell would eight months later plead guilty to fraud and tax evasion in bilking the Rose Law Firm and his former clients out of almost $500,000, they say they would never have put their own reputations on the line. But in the days after Hubbell resigned in April 1994, his situation had only tenuous connections to the broader Whitewater questions that were beginning to envelop the White House. Still to come, for instance, was the revelation that Hubbell had spirited Hillary's Whitewater-related records from the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock, Arkansas...
Alas, the fraud detection works only with electronic returns, a mere 13% of those filed. There is evidence that some unscrupulous filers have shifted back to old-fashioned paper, which bypasses the sophisticated screening. The IRS recently reviewed some rejected electronic returns only to discover that the same taxpayers subsequently refiled on paper, using the same phony Social Security numbers, and duly got their refunds...
Camped ostentatiously at the impact point of our age's need to believe and its need to know, and generating best sellers both for its fervent proponents and (lately) its detractors, the historical Jesus movement (Flash! Virgin birth a cover-up! Resurrection a fraud!) hardly wants for print. Yet in his Gospel Truth (Riverhead Books; 305 pages; $24.95), Russell Shorto provides a useful addition: an up-to-date survey and smart lay analysis of the theories that together constitute one of the stickiest challenges to traditional Christianity...