There are two stories about academic misconduct in the latest issue of Nature: an opinion piece about the "Lying Dutchman," Diederik Stapel at Groningen -- for background, see here. And fresh news about the Andrew Wakefield/MMR scandal. (It's just possible that Wakefield was mistaken rather than meretricious.)
As well, Gilbert Harman has refashioned and elaborated his accusations of Marc Hauser ripping off John Mikhail, and Hauser has responded.
The good news is . . .
. . . that Edwin Hubble has been found innocent of censoring a paper by Belgian astronomer, Georges Lemaître, in order to preserve his own priority with regard to the Hubble constant (the rate of expansion of the universe). It turns out that Lemaître calculated the constant two years before Hubble, but suppressed it himself because he thought that it was of "no interest."
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