Scientific Fraud
Peter Medawar, 17 November 1983
Betrayers of the Truth: Fraud and Deceit in the Halls of Science
by William Broad and Nicholas Wade.
Century, 256 pp., £8.95, July 1983,0 7126 0243 7 Show More
by William Broad and Nicholas Wade.
Century, 256 pp., £8.95, July 1983,
“... are to be found in the index: Piltdown, Paul Kammerer of The Midwife Toad and the infamous William T. Summerlin. This last is the only case of a fraud in which I have been involved as a witness for the prosecution: Summerlin worked at the largest cancer research institute in the world, the Sloan-Kettering in New York, under the patronage of its ... ”