A former University of Washington researcher has lost a lawsuit against the Seattle Times over the disclosure of a report detailing his research misconduct. Scott Brodie, who studied HIV and herpes, sued the university and the newspaper to prevent the report from becoming public, but a judge decided in the newspaper's favor last week, the Times reported Wednesday (November 28).

According to the newspaper, the university banned Brodie from working there after it investigated his work and discovered 15 instances of fabricated data. While at the University of Washington, Brodie published papers on cytotoxic T cells, including a 1999 paper in Nature Medicine that has been cited 194 times, according to the Thomson ISI database.

Brodie left the university in 2003, and according to the Times, the federal government is investigating the case currently. A hat tip to the news blog at the Chronicle of Higher Education for picking up on this story.