PIXABAY, CESKYFREUND36Pathologist Fazlul Sarkar, formerly of Wayne State University, fostered a culture of research misconduct over several years in his lab, according to a report obtained by The Scientist via the Freedom of Information Act.
“Dr. Sarkar established in his laboratory an environment and practices which focused on high productivity in publications and grant applications but which disregarded basic checks on the integrity of data, records, and reporting,” the investigative panel, convened by Wayne State’s associate vice president for research integrity, Philip Cunningham, wrote in its August 2015 report. “The Investigation Committee finds that the evidence shows that Dr. Sarkar engaged in and permitted (and tacitly encouraged) intentional and knowing fabrication, falsification, and/or plagiarism of data, and its publication in journals, and its use to support his federal grant applications.”
Sarkar said that he rejects the findings in the report. “There was no falsification in any of my publications, and there was some error all of which was correctable,” he ...
