Under Rapoport's supervision, the committee had conducted a landmark questionnaire study relating to science ethics. The questionnaire was sent to 5,000 AAAS members and drew 2,500 responses. Remarkably enough, Rapoport's subsequent analysis of these responses--entitled "A Study of Scientists' Views on Ethics and Responsibilities, A Report of the Survey 1967"--was never published, although it carefully tabulated and summarized a rich yield of results. Indeed, the report has been cited only once, with Rapoport's permission, by this writer in a Bulletin of Atomic Scientists article (24:39, 1968) that featured the results of the AAAS study.
Of the 22 wide-ranging questions in the survey, the following involved plagiarism: "Should there be established procedures to deal with cases of alleged plagiarism or utilization of the work of others without credit given?" Among the total respondents, 59.7 percent said yes, 19.2 percent said no, 16.5 percent said they didn't know, and 4.5 declined to ...
