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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 87. Chapters: Trofim Lysenko, Sokal affair, Piltdown Man, MMR vaccine controversy, Andrew Wakefield, Hwang Woo-suk, Ward Churchill academic misconduct investigation, Source criticism, Richard Meinertzhagen, Paul Cameron, Cyril Burt, Marc Hauser, Bruno Bettelheim, Schon scandal, Lysenkoism, Data sharing, Bad Science, Samuel Soal, Luk Van Parijs, Little Albert experiment, Jon Sudbo, Paul Kammerer, Emil Abderhalden, Rusi Taleyarkhan, Shinichi Fujimura, Andrew Jess Dannenberg, Olga Lepeshinskaya, 1983 ISIS Survey, Ranjit Chandra, Scott Reuben, William McBride, John Darsee, Victor Ninov, Reiner Protsch, D nu Marcu, Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals, Fabrication, Eric Poehlman, United States Office of Research Integrity, Betrayers of the Truth: Fraud and Deceit in the Halls of Science, EASE Guidelines for Authors and Translators of Scientific Articles, Joachim Boldt, Steven S. Rosenfeld, Thereza Imanishi-Kari, William Summerlin, Family studies in eugenics, Elias Alsabti, John Browne, Hanxin, Inauthentic text, Abderhalden reaction, Danish Committees on Scientific Dishonesty, Plastic Fantastic: How the Biggest Fraud in Physics Shook the Scientific World, Steven A. Leadon, The Great Betrayal: Fraud In Science. Excerpt: The MMR vaccine controversy refers to the claims that autism spectrum disorders can be caused by the MMR vaccine, an immunization against measles, mumps and rubella. Claims of a connection between the vaccine and autism were raised in a 1998 paper in The Lancet, a respected British medical journal. Investigation by Sunday Times journalist Brian Deer discovered that the lead author of the article, Andrew Wakefield, had multiple undeclared conflicts of interest, had manipulated evidence, and had broken other ethical codes. The Lancet paper was retracted, and Wakefield was found guilty by t...
