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Scientific integrity has periodically been in the news for the last two decades. The issue resurfaced with vehemence due to the controversy over hacked e-mail messages from groups of climate scientists in 2009.
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For a summary of the controversy and its immediate effects, see David Biello, “Negating ‘Climategate’: Copenhagen talks and climate science surviving stolen e-mail controversy”, Scientific American, Feb. 1, 2010; https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/negating-climategate/
R.P. Feynman, Cargo Cult Science, remarks he made at Caltech’s 1974 Commencement Address; http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCult.htm
Letter to the Editor, “Feynman on Scientific Integrity” The Wall Street Journal, Dec. 2, 2009; https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703939404574567864090764366
An excellent account of Trofim Lysenko’s damage to Soviet science in the early 20th century and an unfortunate re-emergence of his praise in 21st Century Russia is given by Sam Kean in “The Soviet Era’s Deadliest Scientist Is Regaining Popularity in Russia”, The Atlantic, December 19, 2017; https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/12/trofim-lysenko-soviet-union-russia/548786/
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Dylla, H.F. (2020). Feynman’s Scientific Integrity. In: Scientific Journeys. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55800-0_6
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