Fraud permeates all types of institutions today and now the world of science, the last bastion of respect and trust, is no exception. Dozens of cases have been uncovered in the past quarter-century-and the headlines continue. We can no longer shrug off fraud in science as the work of aberrant individual scientists, Horace Freeland Judson argues. Instead, we must look for its causes and its remedies in the structures and cultures of the scientific institutions themselves. Judson carefully details all types of scientific fraud and how they happen; considers the self-government of the sciences, including peer review and the refereeing of papers; and exposes the failures of academic, governmental, and legal responses. He also shows how the movement toward Internet publication of papers promises remarkable new checks on fraud and suggests how we can restore and defend the integrity of the greatest monument of human endeavor- the sciences.

霍勒斯·弗裏蘭·賈德森(Horace Freeland Judson，1931—)，喬治·華盛頓大學近期科學史研究中心創建人、前主任，1987年麥剋阿瑟奬得主，著有裏程碑式的著作《創世紀的第八天：20世紀分子生物學革命》。他在《紐約客》、《哈珀斯周刊》、《自然》、《新英格蘭醫學雜誌》、《柳葉刀》、《細胞》、《基因》、《美國醫學會會刊》等雜誌發錶大量文章，並且是《時代》周刊的長期通訊作者。