Safeguarding Your Continuing Education

INCREASINGLY, I AM STRUCK BY THE COMPLEX WORLD around us—complexity born of the rapid explosion of knowledge, technology, and the multitude of choices facing us every day. With these choices come tremendous opportunities—everything you need to know at your fingertips—just Google it. The opportunity to pluck information from sources around the world also brings tremendous challenges. For authors under pressure to produce, for researchers seeking funding, for academics striving for promotion, the temptation to borrow information, to manipulate or falsify data, or to take other shortcuts, surrounds us constantly.