misconduct

NSF drafts guidelines of its scientific integrity principles, and opens them up for public comment.

A UK parliamentary panel says peer review is still valuable, but should be supplemented by open review processes, preprint servers, and online repositories.

FDA points its finger at an early-stage contract research organization for falsifying documents and manipulating samples.

Marc Hauser resigns after findings of scientific misconduct continue to restrict his teaching and research duties.

A University of Pennsylvania researcher claims his colleagues put their names on a Big Pharma-financed study of the anti-depressant Paxil, sight unseen.

The president of the University of the Ryukyus in Japan coauthored a paper containing a duplicated figure.

A former postdoctoral researcher at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital fudged images published in two papers, one of which has since been retracted.

You put your name into Google, and the first entry is about a transgression from 20 years ago, the penalty for which only lasted three years. Now you can't get a job.

University ponders how to replace director of its ancient DNA lab, who quit under a cloud.