Focuses on issues concerning fraud in American scientific institutions. Fabrication of a data on new drugs by Joseph H. Cort, a researcher trained at Harvard and Yale Universities; Release of a report of an inquiry by the National Institutes of Health, into a major research fraud at the Harvard Medical School; Guilty pleading by Harvey M. Lenin, a Philadelphia gynecologist, to falsify results of clinical trials on proposed painkillers; Information on science's vaunted self-correcting system, to detect fraud; Discussion on various science fraud cases.