Not Wicked, Perhaps, but Tacky

I thought I might write an editorial about research ethics, because that subject has been much in the news of late. I quit—not because there aren't problems in that area, but because my attention was diverted to recent events of a somewhat different kind. These don't quite rise to the level of stark transgressions against standards, but they involve bad taste and thus help condition the public view of how science is conducted. With some help from my colleagues at Science, I decided to list some recent actions or events that qualify as tacky.