Making a hoax for profit and fame

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This was a very interesting article.

A number of listeners wrote reminding me that my description of scientists as men and women of integrity, painstakingly in pursuit of truth, did not quite tell the whole story. The pressure to be first to reach a particular scientific goal has always been intense. The rewards in terms of personal fame and financial profit can be considerable.

Consequently, some scientists have not been above falsifying the evidence in order to claim an important scientific “breakthrough”. There are several notorious hoaxes in the history of science.

The article mentions Piltdown Man, Hwang Woo-suk and his fake stem-cell research, and even some issues regarding Louis Pasteur.

Read more at the BBC – The pressure to hoax

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