ABOVE: The French Academy of Sciences found that Anne Peyroche’s articles contained multiple incidences of data manipulation.
FLICKR, ADRIEN SIFRE
The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission has found that cell biologist Anne Peyroche, deputy director of the organization’s Molecular Genetics Laboratory who also served interim president of National Center for Scientific Research, was complicit in the publication of falsified data, according to a report revealed by French news magazine L’Express last week (October 8). The report, completed in May by the French Academy of Sciences, was subsequently buried by both the CEA and CNRS, according to the news story.
Suspicions about Peyroche’s work were first raised last year on the postpublication peer review website PubPeer, where anonymous users pointed to signs of retouched images in five articles she published between 2001 and 2012. Following the allegations, CNRS selected computer scientist Antoine Petit to take Peyroche’s place as its president, ...