Misconduct Office Vows To Keep Actions Secret
The new HHS unit resists pressure to reveal the names of the biomedical scientists it has found guilty of wrongdoing NEW ORLEANS -- The year-old Office of Scientific Integrity Review - responsible for resulting the cases of federally funded biomedical researchers accused of scientific misconduct - has meted out punishment to more than a dozen such researchers so far. But the head of that office said last month that he has no intention of making information pertaining to these cases available t
The new HHS unit resists pressure to reveal the names of the biomedical scientists it has found guilty of wrongdoing |
The issue of scientific misconduct is a contentious topic within the scientific community and in Congress. The debate has featured a long-running battle among the National Institutes of Health, Massachusetts Institute of Technology molecular biologist David Baltimore, and Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.) over an investigation into allegations of improprieties in a 1986 Cell paper on antibody expression coauthored by Baltimore. Last August the Department of Health...
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