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Nature 403, 478 (3 February 2000) | doi:10.1038/35000742

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Apathy rewards misconduct — and everybody suffers

Herbert N. Arst, Jr1

  1. Department of Infectious Diseases, Imperial College School of Medicine, London W12 ONN, UK

Louis Guenin's Commentary (Nature 402, 577; 1999) is a welcome contribution to defining misconduct in scientific research. A related problem is that research misconduct is all too frequently seen as a victimless crime to which indifference is an adequate response.