AIBU to believe that lack of integrity is a huge problem in our society?

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There was Andrew Wakefield.

But there have been so many others. Especially the Netherlands seems to have lots of scandals. Today, in the Volkskrant (one of the main Dutch papers) it is claimed that a very eminent cardiologist (Don Poldermans) on whose research EU guidelines re cardiology were based has committed fraud on a much wider scale than previously thought and wrong European guidelines (based on this fake research as he made up his own data amongst other things) may have cost 800,000 patients their life.

Integrity seems to be such a huge problem in society, bankers, doctors, scientists, politicians, etc. etc. etc. Obviously not all, but too many seem to think they can act with impunity. Did any one of them go to jail?

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What also annoys me is the title - apparently he was 'messy, inaccurate', but that is not the real issue, the real issue is that he knowingly falsified data, he was a liar, why not call it by its name?

Perhaps the Netherlands reports more openly than many other countries.

I don't know. I expect that the oversight is a lot less in the Netherlands. I can recall about 10 big scandals in the last two years involving economists, marketeering guys, psychologists, a variety of other medical specialists.

Professors are almost godlike here. Students don't dare to say anything. Colleagues are dependent on them for promotion or simply to keep their job in the next reorganisation. Very few channels available to complain or raise concerns. Hardly any peer pressure (we are all in it together mentality).

psychology scandal

an even bigger fraud

top science scandals

fraud at Dutch universities

Don Poldermans

marketeer

another one at a leading university

Just a quick google ...