Fraud in the Lab - The High Stakes of Scientific Research

About the author

Nicolas Chevassus-au-Louis is an investigative journalist who writes about history and science for Mediapart. The author of several books on science and technology, he has a doctorate in biology and has worked as a researcher in a biomedical laboratory.

Summary

From manipulated results and fake data to retouched illustrations and plagiarism, cases of scientific fraud have skyrocketed in the past two decades. In a damning exposé, Nicolas Chevassus-au-Louis details the circumstances enabling the decline in scientific standards and highlights efforts to curtail future misconduct.

Product details

• Authors: Nicolas Chevassus-au-lo, Nicolas Chevassus-au-Louis, Nicholas Elliott
• Assisted by: Nicholas Elliott (Translation), Elliott Nicholas (Translation)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.08.2019
• EAN: 9780674979451
• ISBN: 978-0-674-97945-1
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, Science: general issues, Society & social sciences, popular science, SCIENCE / Biotechnology, biotechnology, Society and Social Sciences