San Antonio College Library

"Here, Horace Freeland Judson carefully details various types of scientific fraud and how they happen: considers science's self-government, including peer review and paper refereeing; and exposes the failures of academic, legal, and government responses. With reason for hope, he also points to how the movement toward Internet publication of papers promises remarkable new checks on fraud."--Jacket.

This is a fascinating and insightful analyses of ten fraudsters who shocked the world with their money-making traps. The author examines the nature and working methods of the fraudsters.

"This dramatic film, a presentation of the United States Postal Inspection Service, tells the story of telemarketing investment fraud and the lives that are ruined by these criminals."

"Now in a second edition, Corporate Fraud Handbook provides an insider's look into the most prevalent fraud schemes used by employers, owners, managers, and executives. Each scheme is illustrated with real-life case studies submitted to the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) by certified fraud examiners who aided in the case resolutions."--Jacket.

"Purchasing scams are not a high profile topic in the boardroom or indeed in the purchasing department - victims don't like to talk about their experience. They don't want to admit that they were gullible enough to be fooled by a fake invoice or a plausible appeal for a bogus charity. And yet scams cost companies thousands of pounds every year!" "Purchasing Scams and How to Avoid Them provides a comprehensive and practical guide to avoiding scams...

"In a time of dazzling scientific progress, how are we to separate genuine breakthroughs from the noisy gaggle of false claims? Touching on everything from Deepak Chopra's "quantum alternative to growing old" and "free energy" machines to unwarranted hype surrounding the International Space Station, Robert L. Park leads us through the dim back alleys of fringe science, down the gleaming corridors of Washington power, and even into our evolutionary...

Fees for ATM transactions. Cell phone contracts you can't get out of with a crowbar. Big bucks for insurance you don't need on a rental car or for supposedly "free" wireless internet. Every day we use banks, cell phones, and credit cards. Every day we book hotels and airline tickets. And every day we get ripped off. You didn't fill up that rental car with gas? Gotcha! Gas costs $7 a gallon here. You're one day late on that electric bill? Gotcha! All...

"More than ten years in the making, John Crewdson's Science Fictions is a brilliant work of investigative reporting that raises the curtain on a scientific scandal of major proportions. Science Fictions is the narrative of how one of this country's superstar scientists, Robert Gallo of the National Cancer Institute, falsely claimed to have been the first to isolate the AIDS virus, HIV, and to develop the HIV antibody test that saved the blood supply....

Anecdotal accounts of the most successful, most outrageous, and most expert scammers, flim-flammers, swindlers, and sharpers of the past two hundred years provide grist for Barnum's mill.