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While fraud is generally associated with the business world, this book
demonstrates that there is also a good deal of fraud and deception among
scientists, writers and philanthropists. Scientists will sometimes announce
fraudulent findings in order to raise money for additional research projects.
Since many scientists live by this "soft" money and have no other
income, the temptation to claim results that never occurred is great.
Likewise, authors and journalists may commit fraud by claiming that they saw
something that they did not see or that an event occurred which never happened.
There are also writers who steal the work of others and publish such material
under their own name.
There are executives of charitable organizations who steal the money donated to
a charitable cause and there are clergy who steal from the members of their own
parish, or sell objects that do not belong to them. Some members of the clergy
use their trusted office to gain sexual favors from congregants while others
entertain their friends at the expense of their congregations.
This work is well documented and demonstrates that the notion of the aloof
scientists or holy clergy may be no more than a myth, and that even in these
professions all things are not what they seem.
About the Author
Gerhard Falk is Professor of Sociology at the State University
College at Buffalo. He is the author of seventeen books ranging from Man's
Ascent to Reason to Football and American Identity. Dr. Falk has
also written over forty journal articles and is presently working on a new book,
The Ascent of Women in the 21st Century.
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to Order - Publication Date 10/28/07
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