Yesterday’s Sunday NY Times magazine has an excellent story of what can happen when a scientist goes bad. For young investigators it’s an important read.
Money quote:
“He presented fraudulent data in lectures and in published papers, and he used this data to obtain millions of dollars in federal grants from the National Institutes of Health — a crime subject to as many as five years in federal prison. Poehlman’s admission of guilt came after more than five years during which he denied the charges against him, lied under oath and tried to discredit his accusers.”
Discoverers and Discoveries 