misconduct

A working group has put forth suggestions for cracking down on misconduct, such as requiring grant applicants to disclose sexual harassment findings.

Papers from Catherine Verfaillie’s lab have been drawing fire for years.

Members approve a bylaw change that could prohibit someone guilty of misconduct from attending a conference, following uproar over the presence of a known harasser at a meeting earlier this year.

Criticism of the paper first surfaced in 1994, and its author was accused of scientific misconduct.

Plagiarism and bribery are commonplace, they say, and they’ve begun calling out lapses in scientific integrity.

Many organizations work to confront sexual harassment at conferences.

Comparative biosciences professor Valarmathi Thiruvanamalai was among those able to leave the institution quietly despite credible accusations of misconduct, ProPublica reports.

The agency is now evaluating the implications of the corrupted data behind Zolgensma and whether to “take action” against the pharmaceutical company.

The university investigated faculty members from the Department of Anthropology and the School of Medicine for sexual harassment, firing one and recommending another be fired.

An external consultant will review the work environment of the institution’s Australian Centre for Ancient DNA, led by evolutionary molecular biologist Alan Cooper.

Miami University’s plant conservatory was growing seedlings of iboga, which contains an illegal, psychoactive substance.

Science doesn’t require faith, but fostering trust in its practitioners can help the public move past unfounded doubts.

Executives at a biotech that develops new antibodies argue that Ram Sasisekharan didn’t come up with the structures for at least two experimental therapies that his group has described.

This marks the second known instance in which an institution has acted on NIH’s concern about foreign influence over US-based researchers.

The accusations concerned the safety of research participants. The school says the grants have been reinstated following an investigation.

Twenty current and former students claim anthropologist David Yesner sexually harassed them and that the college didn’t take action until years after the complaints started.

The microbiologist has turned her attention full-time to unearthing problematic figures in papers—for free.

Researchers want to avoid a situation from last week in which a professor, banned from his university for substantiated sexual misconduct claims, showed up at the Society for American Archaeology conference.

A reporter, slated to speak about sexual harassment, is banned from the Society for American Archaeology conference after he confronts an accused sexual harasser in attendance.