An academic scandal is one that exposes the unethical or erroneous work of a major academic figure. Academic scandal is closely related to journalistic fraud. See also the narrower notion Scientific misconduct. Plato is credited with the inception of academia: the body of knowledge, its development and transmission across generations. ... A scandal involves widely publicized allegations of wrong-doing, disgrace or moral outrage. ... Journalistic Fraud: How The New York Times Distorts the News and Why It Can No Longer Be Trusted is a book by Bob Kohn with a thesis similar to that of Bernard Goldbergs Bias. ... Scientific misconduct is the violation of the standard codes of scholarly conduct and ethical behavior in professional scientific research. ...

List of academic scandals

• False verifications
  • Verification of the James Ossuary by the Geological Survey of Israel (GSI) and Andre Lemair of Sorbonne University
  • The verification of the authenticity of the Hitler Diaries by Hugh Trevor-Roper
• Corporate involvement in academia
  • Nancy Olivieri-Apotex scandal
• Academic fraud
  • Fujimura Shinichi
  • Piltdown Man
  • Jan Hendrik Schön
  • Sir Cyril Burt's twin study research
  • Ward Churchill; fabricating ethnicity, plagiarism, academic fraud, intimidation
• Other
  • The Sokal Affair
  • Michael Bellesiles

The James Ossuary is a sepulchral urn for containing bones, which was found in Israel in 2002 and was claimed to have been the ossuary of James, the brother of Jesus. ... ... In 1983, the German news magazine Stern published extracts from what purported to be the diaries of Adolf Hitler, known as the Hitler Diaries. ... Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton (January 15, 1914 - January 26, 2003) was a notable historian of early modern Britain and Nazi Germany, who became infamous for authenticating the Hitler Diaries, which were later proved to be a hoax. ... Fujimura Shinichi (b. ... Piltdown Man (Eoanthropus dawsoni) was a hoax which was perpetrated, possibly by Charles Dawson and/or others, on paleontologists from November 1912 until its exposure in 1953. ... Jan Hendrik Schön (born 1970) is a German physicist who briefly rose to prominence after a series of apparent breakthroughs, which were later discovered to be fraudulent. ... Sir Cyril Lodowic Burt (March 3, 1883 - October 10, 1971) was a British educational psychologist, one of the few to ever be knighted for his work. ... Ward LeRoy Churchill (born October 2, 1947) is an American writer, activist, and academic. ... The Sokal Affair was a famous hoax played by physicist Alan Sokal on the postmodernist humanities academics world. ... Michael Bellesiles is the author of Arming America: Origins of a National Gun Culture, a book which ignited passions on both sides of the gun control debate with its central argument: that guns were uncommon in early America and were of little use. ...

External link

• Several links relating to the Nancy Olivieri-Apotex scandal: [1] (http://www.mcmaster.ca/mufa/turk.htm) [2] (http://www.caut.ca/english/bulletin/2001_nov/default.asp) [3] (http://www.redflagsweekly.com/Others/scinancy.html)