The fallout from the now-called “Ninov scandal,” which happened almost at the same time as another scientific misconduct scandal in the US, was quick and widespread. The American Physical Society expanded its code of ethics and made scientific misconduct the topic of its next conference keynote, which is typically given by a Nobel Prize winner.
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