On Fact and Fraud: Cautionary Tales from the Front Lines of Science

"Fascinating case studies" of scientific controversies and misconduct—with valuable insights on how to identify, avoid, and prevent fraud (Leonardo).

In David Goodstein's varied experience—as a physicist and educator, and as vice provost at Caltech, a job in which he was responsible for investigating all allegations of scientific misconduct—a deceptively simple question has come up time and again: What constitutes fraud in science? Here, Goodstein takes us on a tour of real controversies fr...