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Published online 4 March 2004 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news040301-9

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Scientists behaving badly

Journal editors reveal researchers' wicked ways.

They lie, they cheat and they steal. Judging by the cases described by a group of medical journal editors, scientists are no different from the rest of us.

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