Article
"Thank God for the Lawyers": Some Thoughts on the (Mis)regulation of Scientific Misconduct
Tennessee Law Review
(1999)
Abstract
This essay, adapted from Peter W. Morgan & Glenn H. Reynolds, "The Appearance of Impropriety: How the Ethics Wars Have Undermined American Government, Business and Society," looks at some celebrated scientific misconduct cases from the 1990s, and discusses how legal norms, scientific norms, and bureaucratic norms often clash, and sometimes produce significant injustice.
Keywords
- Science Fraud,
- Climategate,
- Office of Research Integrity,
- Ori,
- Summerlin,
- Sharma,
- Hamosh,
- Popovic,
- Gallo,
- Imanishi-Kari,
- Stewart
Disciplines
Publication Date
Spring 1999
Citation Information
Glenn Reynolds. ""Thank God for the Lawyers": Some Thoughts on the (Mis)regulation of Scientific Misconduct" Tennessee Law Review Vol. 66 Iss. 3 (1999) p. 801 - 818 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/glenn-reynolds/55/