I believe there is a great deal of corruption in academic science. Several cold fusion researchers, biologists and others have told me about incidents such as harassment, publishing fraudulent data, stealing data during peer-review, and so on. Academic science has a public reputation of being ethical and directed only toward "learning the truth." I believe it is more political than the public realizes.
The *New York Times* today published an article about an important scientist who has been accused of unethical behavior: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/08/science/cancer-carlo-croce.html Years of Ethics Charges, but Star Cancer Researcher Gets a Pass Quoting the lede: "Dr. Carlo Croce is among the most prolific scientists in an emerging area of cancer research involving what is sometimes called the “dark matter” of the human genome. A department chairman at Ohio State University and a member of the National Academy of Sciences, Dr. Croce has parlayed his decades-long pursuit of cancer remedies into a research empire: He has received more than $86 million in federal grants as a principal investigator and, by his own count, more than 60 awards. With that flamboyant success has come a quotient of controversy. Some scientists argue that Dr. Croce has overstated his expansive claims for the therapeutic promise of his work, and that his laboratory is focused more on churning out papers than on carefully assessing its experimental data. But a far less public scientific drama has been playing out in the Biomedical Research Tower that houses Dr. Croce’s sprawling laboratory on Ohio State’s campus in Columbus. Over the last several years, Dr. Croce has been fending off a tide of allegations of data falsification and other scientific misconduct, according to federal and state records, whistle-blower complaints and correspondence with scientific journals obtained by The New York Times. . . ." - Jed
