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Nature 399, 521 (10 June 1999) | doi:10.1038/21055

Exploitation of junior scientists must end

Troy Shinbrot1

  1. Department of Chemical & Biochemical Engineering, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA

There has been a longstanding need for serious analysis of the genuine ethical problems of exploitation, corruption and abuse in science1. Unfortunately, the debate instead tends to be framed in terms of 'fabrication, falsification and plagiarism'.