CONTENTS
i Preface
ii Acknowledgements
1 EXPLORING BAD SCIENCE
Introduction
2 PSEUDOSCIENCE IN SCIENCE
3 SHODDY SCIENCE
3.1 Cooking
Data
3,2 The
Misallocation of Credit
3.3 Negligence
3.4 Dismal
Standards of Indian Research
4 CONSENSUS SCIENCE
4.4 Consensus
Can Change Over Time
4.5 Scientific
Consensus and the Scientific Minority
4.6 Herd
Instinct
5 PATHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
“The Science Of Things That Aren’t So”
6 CARGO CULT SCIENCE
7 VOODOO SCIENCE
8 FRINGE SCIENCE
9 JUNK SCIENCE
10 PSEUDOSCIENCE
10.1 Characteristics
of Pseudoscience
10.2 Pseudoscientific
Claims
11 PROTO-SCIENCE
Conclusion
12 MISCONDUCT IN SCIENCE:
A Brief Survey Of Definitions And Debate Around Them
12.1 The
National
Academy of Science's Response
13 MISCONDUCT IN SCIENCE
13.1 Spectrum
of Bad Science
13.2 Example
of Definitions from A Lancet Review On Handling of Scientific Misconduct in Scandinavian Countries
13.3 Accountability
of Authors and of Coauthors: Self-plagiarism
13.4 Other
Forms of Misconduct in Science
13.5 Photo
Manipulation
13.6 Career
Pressure
13.7 Reproducibility
13.8 Consequences
13.9 List
of Misconduct……………………
13.10
Measures to Check Misconduct
13.11
Journal peer view………………………
14 GREAT FRAUDS IN SCIENCE
14.1 Fabrication,
Falsification, Plagiarism By Great Men Of Science:: Isaac Newton, Sigmund Freud, Robert Milliken, Sir Arthur Eddington
14.2 Einstein’s Plagiarism and his Lullaby Equation E=MC2
14.3 Archaeological Forgery
14.4 Calaveras
Skull
14.5 The
Embryonic Recapitulation Hoax’
14.6 The
Piltdown Hoax
14.7 Myths
of Giant Men
14.8 The
Fejee Mermaid
14.9 The
Cardiff Giant “America's
Greatest Hoax”
14.10
Monsters of the Sea
14.11
Archaeoraptor liaoningensis
14.12
Lithographia Wirceburgensis
Recent
Frauds
14.13 The Cold Fusion Incident
14.14
The Biggest Scandal in the Bird World
14.15
Archaeoraptor
14.16
High Tension Wires Hazards to Human Health
14.17
Japanese Paleolithic Hoax - “God's hand” Incident
14.18
A Case of Fraud at Bell Laboratories
14.19
Professor Hwng’s Cloning Fraud at Seoul National University
15 FRAUDS IN MEDICAL RESEARCH
15.1 The
Great Betrayal: Fraud in Science
15.2 Studies
To Find Out Frauds In Bio- Medical Sciences
15.3 Well
Publicized Cases of Fraud
15.4 Controversial
HIV/AIDS
15.5 Measures
to Check Fraud
15.6 Reference
Materials on Misconduct
15.7 Indian
Measures to Check Misconduct
15.8 The
Society for Scientific Values (SSV)
16 SCIENTIST VS INVENTOR
17 SUPPRESSION OF INVENTOR
17.1 Rejection
of Obscure Inventor…
17.2 Suppression
of Free Energy Research
17.3 Truth
of Big Bang
17.4 Theory
of Relativity and Perpetual Motion
17.5 Anti
Gravity
17.6 Cold
Fusion
18 Notes and References
19 Appendices
EEC Series
Of Books
Author’s
Introduction