You mean it's from STRESS? Say it isn't so.

A report in Seed magazine reports on an article in Nature magazine (still with me?) that scientists have been caught falsifying scientific study results due to stress from pressure:

"The Minnesota-based team also conducted a nationwide survey of 3,247 research scientists to determine if there were systemic causes for these misbehaviors. The results, published in the June 2005 issue of Nature, showed that scientists who feel unjustly treated at work are more likely to commit normal misbehaviors.

"Scientists feel that they are under pressure," de Vries said. "When we asked them to talk about it on the survey, what we found is that if you feel like you're being treated unfairly, you're more likely to engage in these misbehaviors." "

So let me see... scientists who feel uncomfortable might engage in 'misbehaviors'.

... Are scientists the only ones who might engage in 'misbehaviors' due to pressure? Doesn't that mean that MANY people who feel under pressure (undue or otherwise) might misbehave? And furthermore, the fact that scientists get caught at falsifying their experiments are simply under more public scrutiny than, say, a 'regular" person doing the exact same [mis] behaviors in average jobs or average lives?

The truth is, that we should all be telling truths. Create an environment where telling the truth (and facing the truth) about situations is what causes us to grow more. Those scientists to "misbehaved" (LIED) about their studies could be actually seeking better results by facing the facts of their studies.

Skewing information in response to lies only does one thing: creates more lies. How can we discover a better way of living if we don't honestly face what is happening?