Nature Medicine (27.4.2006) brings an article series on scientific fraud, some advice for whistle-blowers, a description of recent fraud cases (also false claims of fraud), backgrounds and reasons for scientists to "fake data, fudge number or filch ideas," as David Cyranoski writes.
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Fraud is one thing (minor talents have to concentrate on marketing)! Formal - or better informal - pressure (or "climatic adaptation" or "customizing brains") another. We have to be sorry to state that it is still in the US that they publish reports on merely that type of issue, see www.ucsusa.org/ Union Concerned Scientists.
Finally - not to forget - we have to be concerned of !mistakes in research and science.
We are supposed to stay close to these 'tags', science and technology bring the resources and the tools of modern life...