👉 Scienter is a term used in legal and scientific contexts to indicate culpability or negligence. It refers to a person's actions that result in harm, injury, or death. In legal terms, scienter encompasses conduct that is reckless or intentionally harmful. In the context of science, scienter can refer to a specific type of error in research, such as falsification, which involves making false claims about the results of an experiment or study. This could be intentional or unintentional. Scienter