It can be tempting, in those circumstances, to counter the political distortions and exaggerations about crime by single-mindedly minimizing it. But whether you call that approach “left idealism,” as the pioneering Left Realists in Britain did, or (as I have sometimes done in responding to ...
It is reasonable to assume that the pressure to “publish or perish” can also lead to exaggerations about the significance or certainty of research findings and, even worse, publishing massaged or even falsified results, which often remains unnoticed, unless caught, in which case the paper is ...