The Dookhan case is better explained as a “bad apple” because Dookhan showed the characteristics of a bad apple that Thompson, in his article, “Beyond Bad Apples”, explains as careless, incompetent, and malicious. Dookhan began to show her carelessness for the cases she forged signatures on the drug testing paperwork. This shows that Dookhan did not care to allow her superiors to peer review her findings and that she would try to find the easy way out of testing the drug samples. By forging the signatures, she would be able to continue on to the next cases rather than wait for someone to review her results since it would hold her back from moving on with her work. It also shows that she did not care enough to want to find the true results of