any scientist's standard. To discard a drop, he had to find some mistake that would invalidate that datum." So he did. It
was not fraud, Goodstein says, just exercise of scien- tific judgment.
The fine line between "harmless fudging" and real fraud is an important one, Goodstein maintains. If the work, and everything that flowed from it, of New- ton, Millikan, Ptolemy, Hip- parchus of Rhodes, Galileo, John Dalton, and Gregor Mendel-all accused Broad and Wade of involve- ment in...