SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT

[摘要] In 1916, while British troops were dying in the trenches of Europe, an obscure American by the name of James Shearer published an article in the British Medical Journal describing a method he had devised for depicting the path of gunshot wounds...The British military embarked on a vigorous and costly program to put Shearer's method to practice. However, it soon became apparent that Shearer's "Invention" was just that and that his impressive article was a fraud. The British Medical Journal promptly published a retraction. Shearer, who had been serving as a sergeant in His Majesty's Army, was summarily court-martialed and sentenced to death by fining squad. He died a year later in prison of tuberculosis, his death sentence having been commuted. [See Lock S. Misconduct in medical research: Does it exist in Britain? Br Med J. 1988;297:1531.]

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