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'''Academic dishonesty''' is academic misconduct which violates the principles of [[academic integrity]]. For students, this primarily means cheating on a test - pretending you've learned more than you really have. For researchers, this generally refers to [[intellectual dishonesty]], such as knowingly presenting an unsound argument in favor of a proposition for ideological reasons. 

Scientists unknowingly drift academic dishonesty by incorrectly assuming that a small sample represents the whole (see [[statistical sampling]]). The pressures of the "[[publish or perish]]" mindset may drive some scientists to such deliberate acts as:
* faking research to support a theory (see "[[fudging]]") (see [[Michael A. Bellesiles]], a [[professor]] at [[Emory University]] who faked gun ownership data in early America to support [[gun control]])
* discarding data which contradict a theory
* [[character assassination]] of scientists who advance competing theories
* refusing to make data available for review by interested parties  (See [[Richard Lenski]] for an example)

==See also==
* [[Evolution syndrome]]

* [[Professor values]]

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[[Category:Liberal Traits]]