Econometrics and the Truth-Seeking Assumption: Ethics and Research Independence David M. Levy James Buchanan Center George Mason University Fairfax VA 22030 DavidMLevy@aol.com Sandra J. Peart Economics Department Baldwin-Wallace College Berea OH 44017 speart@bw.edu November 12, 2001 To be presented at the Southern Economic Association meetings in Tampa in November 2001. A CD with JPG and TIF files of the Fleeming Jenkin diagram of exchange is available upon request from the authors. The scans are detailed enough to reveal the pencil makings.