In fact, mean and dishonest people sometimes can find financial success more easily in business than those who play it straight.

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Prof Whiteley also said he thought part of the reason young people were found to be more likely to be dishonest than older people was because "the role models are not very good".

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Those who thought they had knock-offs were more likely to say that people were dishonest and unethical.

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The problem is not that people are being dishonest or falsifying their data (these are practices that are so obviously wrong or immoral that we hope nobody does them), but science requires another level of honesty that goes beyond reporting the results that support our conclusions.

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"It's a painful portrayal of two people who have fallen into a dishonest dynamic, " says Morahan.

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Vice President DICK CHENEY: That the president of the United States or any member of this administration purposely misled the American people on prewar intelligence is one of the most dishonest and reprehensible charges ever aired in this city.

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