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...Guillermo García announced that members of the armed forces would not be allowed to vote, apparently to avoid any charges of military interference. The junta, meanwhile, decreed its new election laws. The use of voter lists will be abandoned. The lists were often a source of fraud in the past. They have also been outdated by the many deaths and dislocations among the population, and they risked being boycotted by voters who fear being murdered if their name appears on a list having anything to do with politics. Under the new system, a voter can present his government...
Darsee's case is the latest in a string of incidents, made public over the last two years, in which medical researchers have falsified data. One case involved Harvard-affiliated scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital, another involved several accusations of fraud against a former Boston University cancer researcher, and a third involved a fabrication and coverup at Yale Medical School...
...falsified data. This year two University of California scientists have been reprimanded for a different ethical breach: violating federal guidelines governing genetic engineering. Some newspapers have begun talking about a scientific "crime wave," and though the term does not really apply, Congress took notice by holding hearings on fraud in bio-medical research. One response: the National Institutes of Health, which doles out $2 billion a year for research, has threatened to cut off any institution that fails to act as a watchdog on its workers...
...time of such intense competition, a researcher who happens to suspect chicanery by a rival may be only too willing to blow the whistle. Scientists also like to point out that science was long protected from fraud by a built-in safety mechanism: to be generally accepted, experiments must be repeatable by others. Indeed it was just such a failure that led to Spector's downfall. But in contemporary practice, the safeguard often does not work. So much is being done in every field that unless an experiment is really important, years may pass before anyone tries to repeat...
Audiences love you or hate you in this country--their responses lack complexity. There is an element of fraud in the hosannas that greet the Royal Shakespeare Company's Nicholas Nickleby every night from the moment the lights dim. The show is sensational, to be sure, but the overpowering beauty of its canvas becomes apparent only around Hour Five, long, long after delirious theatregoers have been scurrying about proclaiming it's the greatest day they've ever spent in the theatre. Nothing's inherently objectionable about an immense outpouring of love, but the flip side of this is the palpable...