单项选择题

  Plagiarism is widely recognized as a high crime against the project of science, but the explanations for why it’s harmful generally     1    it look like a different kind of crime than fabrication and falsification.     2    , Kenneth D. Pimple claims that plagiarism is not an     3    that undermines the knowledge-building project of science. Rather, the crime is in depriving other scientists of the reward they are     4    for participating in this knowledge-building project.     5    , Pimple says that plagiarism is problematic not because it is dishonest, but rather because it is unfair.
    While I think Pimple is fight to identify an additional component of responsible conduct of science     6    honesty, namely, a certain kind of fairness to one’s     7    scientists. I also think this analysis of plagiarism misses an important     8    in which misrepresenting the source of words, ideas, methods, or results can     9    the knowledge-building project of science.
    On the surface, plagiarism, while     10    nasty to the person whose report is being stolen, might seem not to undermine the scientific community’s     11    of the phenomena. We are still, after all, bringing together and     12    a number of different observation reports to determine the stable features of our experience of the phenomenon.     13    this comparison often involves a dialogue as well. As part of the knowledge-building project, from the earliest planning of their experiments to well after results are published, scientists are     14    in asking and answering questions about the details of the experience and of the conditions     15    which the phenomenon was observed. Misrepresenting someone else’s honest observation report as one’s own strips the report of accurate information for such a dialogue.