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BACALLAO, Jorge; BARBER, Antonio  y  ROCA, Gerabel. Las conductas impropias en la actividad científica. Rev Cubana Salud Pública [online]. 2003, vol.29, n.1, pp.61-64. ISSN 0864-3466.

Science may be synthetically characterized as an activity of permanent search for the truth. The falsification, fabrication and plagio commonly identified as the most ostensible misconducts in science are its antithesis. Although the prevalence of these miconducts as an aberrant expression of the scientific work is difficuct to be estimated ove, among other things, to the difficulty to have their diagnosis, there is no doubt about the convenience of their prevention. In Cuba, where the scientific education is a social priority oriented to the technical competence and to ethical integration, teaching turns into education belause it implies not only the transmission of knowledge, but also the formation of habits. This article to define some misconducts ana proposes a framework for their diagnosis and preventive actions

Palabras clave : SCIENCE [ethics]; PLAGIARISM.

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