Scientific fraud

Scientific fraud has always been a problem. People claiming to have discovered something, when they know they really haven't, have fooled many people many times. (See history of science). Scientific fraud differs from scientific error, since in the case of fraud the researcher knows his findings aren't actually supported by the available evidence.

Famous examples

The global warming theory is based on fraudulent statistics and outright misrepresentation or dismissal of known scientific facts. See Climategate, Hockey stick graph, etc.

Major organizations which promote or protect fraud

An American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) report defines scientific fraud as "including falsification, fabrications, selective use of data, and manipulation of graphs and figures." [1] Ironically, the AAAS is itself guilty of selective use of data and of censoring papers which contradict its public policy positions.

Links

• Five Best Books: Scientific Fraud - WSJ.com

• 7 Crazy Realities of Scientific Publishing

• The present scientific community and character issues

• The business of progressive science

• Scientific fraud problem in science community

• Peer review problems in science

• Scientific replication problems and current published science articles

• Over half of psychology studies fail reproducibility test, Nature, August 27, 2015
• Psychology is not science - Discusses lack of transparency of Dutch psychologists in terms of their data for their experiments