History is littered with astronomers who doggedly pursued fame at the expense of the scientific method.
While researching a biographical encyclopaedia, of the University of Northern Iowa compiled a list of 鈥渞eally bad鈥� astronomers. Some were combative, while others seem to have stolen ideas or manufactured data, infiltrating the astronomical community 鈥渓ike wolves among the sheep鈥�. Hockey discussed them last month at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society.
Read about some of the offenders here.
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