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SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT
In 2001, Jan Hendrik Schon, the former physics prodigy at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey, cranked out papers at the astounding average rate of one every 8 days. Now, in the wake of a 25 September Bell Labs report that concluded Schon had committed widespread misconduct (Science, 4 October 2002, p. 30), the retractions are coming almost as fast. In November, Science published retractions of eight papers by Schon and colleagues. Nature posted linked warnings to its electronic versions of Schon's papers and...