Frank Wells, an expert on research fraud has written:
"Human nature is flawed, and the temptation to cheat, fabricate, falsify, or plagiarize, coupled with degrees of arrogance and greed, will indeed always remain with us. That temptation will, from time to time, fail to be resisted. The research community needs ‘mechanisms that will minimize the occurrence of research misconduct’ and also mechanisms to ‘deal with it responsibly and expeditiously’ when it occurs."
In Wells F & Farthing M (eds): Fraud & Misconduct in Biomedical Research (4e), Royal Society of Medicine Press, London, 2008.