Regular Misbehaviors In December 2000, the US Office of Science and Technology Policy defined research misconduct as fabrication, falsification, or plagiarism, but a recent study in Nature, "Scientists Behaving Badly" says misconduct extends well beyond high-profile FFP. The authors say "mundane 'regular' misbehaviors" present greater threats to science than high-profile cases of fraud. 33% of the scientists surveyed admitted to at least one of the top ten misbehaviors. The Association of American Medical Colleges objects to a such surveys. Consider this-- how likely is it the worst offenders returned the survey?

Science Self-Polices... But, slowly After Steven Leadon, a researcher at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, was caught falsifying data, Tony Waldrop, UNC's vice chancellor for research and economic development said the retraction of the high-cited paper in Science shows "the scientific process works". The retraction was published eight years after the original paper.