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Cheating in Science and Medicine
Dr.T.V.Rao MD
India has progressed in many fields with improvement of Human life and better human living conditions.
Post-independence has brought many great Institutes in spite of conflicting political interests. We do not
find people like Ramanujam or C.V Raman today. People are boosted by the papers, publications and
decoration of titles honoured by the Nexus in many Institutes and Universities. If one is attached to a
University we will be recognised if he enjoys the political attachment and a good manipulator he becomes
a Scholar very soon and gets the titles and honours in a matter of time. Many professors and faculty
publish hundreds of papers and tons of textbooks. With little work, it is just rewriting up and every topic
is little research of interest is split into 5-6 papers, and we will be astonished to hear on when they read
the Bio data that particular scientist has published so many papers. I just happened to be a Medical
officer in a University, and had lot of interaction with many good and bad competent and totally
incompetent teachers, there are extraordinary professors who are never known as learned person, as
most of the Vice-chancellors are appointed on the Caste rotation basis and rarely anybody knows about
Science. They are excellent in speeches which we may be deceived how learned person is? The Professors
who enjoys the clout of the Vice-chancellor becomes greatly favoured person the truth is as is often the
case, this head of the department and other favoured faculty were not doing hands-on research himself.
He was busy writing articles and grant proposals and traveling around giving speeches. A fleet of graduate
students and postdoctoral fellows conducted the research. He would put his name on reports of research
that he had helped to design but that others had conducted. He didn't even understand fully the
equipment that was used in those experiments. I have seen tragedies that research scholar under ill
knowledged person get into depression and may have committed suicide if he / she would have
continued. There are people in Universities when they ignorant, and do not possess any knowledge they
will not allow any body to do anything because their ignorance is exposed. How common is scientific
fraud? Nobody really knows. Defenders of science's purity often argue that such fraud is very rare, the
product of a tiny number of "bad apples." But I doubt that. My suspicion is that the cases of fraud that are
exposed are just the tip of the iceberg. The spirit of scientific research differs from country to country and
India is very peculiar, we need caste, and religion, political support to achieve support at every stage,
Many professors in Medical colleges they hamper the students if they do not belong their own
community, it is so rampant even in Universities . The Internet made everything every easy just copy and
paste and you are great author and everything belongs to you, the problem comes when are results of
research to be reproduced. We have heard people argue that it would be against anyone's self-interest to
cheat in science because cheating will be caught when someone tries to replicate the experiment and
fails. But, in truth, replication is rare in most areas of science. Most scientists want to do something new,
and funding agencies rarely provide grants to repeat already published experiments. It is miserable
experience if you really want to do work the funding organization will be searching for people so they can
give back in black white media so it accredited that the money spent in worth way. Some other scientists
have been caught cheating because their fabricated data, quite literally, was too good to be true. There is
always a certain degree of random variability in real data, and repeated data sets that have no or almost
no variability are powerful evidence of fabrication. You have to be either very dynamic or very stupid to
get caught at cheating in science. The purpose of science is to discover truths. Cheating completely

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