The Great Betrayal: Fraud in Science

Library Bookwatch, Dec, 2004

The Great Betrayal: Fraud In Science

Horace Freeland Judson

Harcourt

15 East 26th Street, New York NY 10010

0151008779 $28.00 1-800-543-1918

Science as a discipline is not immune to fraud, as Horace Freeland Judson demonstrates in his study The Great Betrayal: Fraud In Science. Judson is the former director of the center for History of Recent Science: his background lends to his survey of dozens of cases where scientific fraud and aberrant scientists have threatened the very reliability and foundations of the scientific process. Chapters chart cases of scientific self-government and cases which came to light, examining events, causes, and resolution processes.