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Institutionalized Plagiarism
Honor among thieves remains an impediment to purging misconduct from scientific inquiry
The Scientist 2004, 18(15):8
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During the Dark Ages a guild of professional assassins, rogues, and thieves willfully misled inquiries as to the guilt of fellow associates in order to exonerate them of their crimes. Although this behavior probably originated with the dawn of humanity, the thieves' guild was first to codify the dastardly practice. Centuries later, gangsters and professional mobsters, typified by Lucky Luciano and John Dillinger, exploited the tenets of the thieves' code of silence so successfully that it permeated virtually every realm of American society.
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