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Editorial
Nature 445, 229 (18 January 2007) | doi:10.1038/445229a; Published online 17 January 2007
Leading by example
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Abstract
The primary safeguard against scientific misconduct is the example set every day by thousands of senior researchers in the laboratory.
Everybody likes a good scandal, and there is nothing like a fresh allegation of research misconduct to set tongues wagging in the scientific community and outside it.There is broad agreement within the community on two main points regarding outright scientific fraud: it is rare, and it is serious.
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