In Defense of an Error: Intellectual Corruption in
Contemporary Science
Volume 1 - Issue 5
James F Welles*
Received: December 10, 2018; Published: December 17, 2018
DOI: 10.32474/SJPBS.2018.01.000123
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Abstract
A reviewer of a book I wrote claimed an idea presented therein could be found elsewhere. Nine years later, no one could say
where, but no one would correct the erroneous claim, so what began as an effort to obtain a redress of a legitimate grievance slowly
degenerated into a tour deface of a surreal ethics warp in our intellectual community. The citations submitted to document the
claim failed to do so, and the file on the dispute maintained by the American Psychological Association (APA) really is not about
my case at all. The University of Connecticut (UConn) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) failed
to hold anyone accountable. There was a basic conflict between the conduct of officials of all these organizations and their ethical
codes. In a culture of intellectual corruption, behavior consisted of a pervasive and extended cover-up characterized by sophistry,
secrecy, fantasy, irrelevance, rationalization, misattribution, misrepresentation, fabrication, falsification, failure to communicate
and an adamant refusal to deal logically and fairly with the facts of the case. This demonstrated a complete lack of cognitive integrity
and constituted a total betrayal of the academic/scientific commitment to truth.
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