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"Scientific fraud" as a book category covers works that explore the deliberate distortion of research and the systems that enable it, including fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, data manipulation, and fraudulent authorship. These books range from investigative nonfiction and case studies of high-profile scandals to memoirs by whistleblowers, analyses of institutional and cultural drivers (publish-or-perish pressures, peer review failures, conflicts of interest), and fictionalized thrillers inspired by real events. Common themes include the detection and forensics of bad science, legal and career consequences, the impact on public policy and trust, and lessons about research integrity and reproducibility. Aimed at scholars, students, journalists, and general readers interested in ethics and the sociology of science, the category illuminates how and why science can go wrong and what can be done to prevent it.

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