Abstract

The accusations were really flying this week. At global warming negotiations in The Hague, Nature's lead story reports the Europeans accused the U.S. of intransigence in the face of a looming catastrophe and the U.S. shot back that the Europeans are ignoring solid environmental science. Science leads with a group of scientists who are accusing their own community of (occasional) misconduct.

Highlights

  • Nature kicks off the week with an article about the collapse of the international negotiations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. (Science covers the story, but in its number 2 slot.) The meeting’s stated goal was to reach an agreement on methods of attaining the carbon-emission reductions agreed upon three years ago in Kyoto, Japan, report Nature and Science

  • Most people are reluctant to talk about their sex lives, so sociologist Charles Turner was surprised when one of his data collectors started reporting too many successful interviews for their National Institute of Health study of human sexual behavior

  • Science says that biologist Elizabeth Davidson and colleagues at Arizona State University in Tempe found that 84 to 91% of introductory biology and zoology students admitted to manipulating lab data “almost always” or “often,” usually to get a better grade

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The accusations were really flying this week. At global warming negotiations in The Hague, Nature’s lead story reports the Europeans accused the U.S of intransigence in the face of a looming catastrophe and the U.S shot back that the Europeans are ignoring solid environmental science. Science leads with a group of scientists who are accusing their own community of (occasional) misconduct.

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