More than half of Lesley Grayson’s Scientific Deception (British Library
£24.50, ISBN 0 7123 0831 8) consists of pre´cis of 230 papers and
books on misconduct in science, its perpetrators, their motives and methods.
The remainder is a commentary, more balanced than most, on malpractice and how
to deal with it.
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