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Research integrity: Sabotage!

Postdoc Vipul Bhrigu destroyed the experiments of a colleague in order to get ahead. It took a hidden camera to expose a surreptitious and malicious side of science.

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Maher, B. Research integrity: Sabotage!. Nature 467, 516–518 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/467516a

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