Eugenie Samuel Reich

This is truly a fascinating book that should be required reading for people getting PhDs in the physical sciences. Sure, forgery is (hopefully) exceedingly rare, but many issues of research ethics can be brought forth in this book, such as: How repeatable must an experiment be before you can claim that it is a success? Is it ever appropriate for a researcher to delete data points? What kind of disclosures should be made for data that has been fitted?

Scientists are generally an exceedingly skeptical group, however it's uncertain how we can be made aware of a forgery when we also assume that other scientists are honest about their work. If anything, this book makes me more committed to being a skeptic and to question the results I see even in published papers.

Pet peeve alert: apparently the copy editor to this book was not a scientist as the author lets slip "silicone" a couple of times when "silicon" was clearly meant to go. YIKES!!!… (meer)