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Scientific publishers get involved in a scandal at Temple University that has so far produced one retraction for image manipulation, a university-led investigation, and a lawsuit by one of the researchers involved.

Geneticist Terry Magnuson steps down as vice-chancellor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill after he copied text from multiple sources he found online into a grant application. 

Kathy Partin, whose staff had expressed concerns about changes she instituted, was reportedly asked to leave.

Neuroscientist Kathryn Partin will lead the US Office of Research Integrity.

The researcher who spiked rabbit blood with human antibodies to make an HIV vaccine look more effective is sentenced to 57 months in prison and must repay his National Institutes of Health grant.

A former Iowa State University researcher faces up to 10 years in prison for faking data involving a study of an HIV vaccine.

The Office of Research Integrity has finally pointed the finger in a case of suspected data manipulation in a 2006 Science paper.

A former postdoc in a prominent gene therapy lab is branded a fraud by the US government more than three years after having a slew of papers retracted from various journals.

The director of the Office of Research Integrity, the federal agency that investigates scientific misconduct, resigns after two years on the job.

Research misconduct is not limited to the developed world, but few countries anywhere are responding adequately.

A postdoc at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital is found guilty of falsifying his findings in a lung cancer study.

A cancer researcher charged with scientific misconduct in 2011 may have the right to present his defense—a rare occurrence under current regulations.

Michael Miller is found guilty of research misconduct, having misconstrued data in four NIH grants, two papers, and one manuscript.

A database manager stole NIH grant funds, falsified data, and lied about it.

A physician doing a residency at the University of Virginia Medical Center was caught copying sections of text and an illustration in multiple NIH-funded papers.

Sheng Wang leaves the Boston University School of Medicine and agrees to retract two published studies.

Postdoc forced to leave position after questioning the reproducibility of advisor's data.

You put your name into Google, and the first entry is about a transgression from 20 years ago, the penalty for which only lasted three years. Now you can't get a job.