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Prominent geneticist David Latchman, the chief academic and administrative officer of Birkbeck, University of London, has been accused of “recklessness” for his role in an ongoing research scandal, according to a report described by The Telegraph.
The research scandal began in 2013 after an anonymous whistleblower initially accused scientists at University College London’s Institute of Child Health (ICH), where Latchman was the dean from 1999 to 2002, of misrepresenting research in dozens of published papers, according to The Telegraph. The accusations triggered an investigation. Two scientists, Anastasis Stephanou and Tiziano Scarabelli, were found to have doctored images in seven papers on which Latchman was a coauthor.
A January 3 article in The Guardian reported that Latchman, who was appointed Master of Birkbeck in January 2003, ...
