ABOVE: University College London, where David Latchman was head of a research lab from the 1990s to 2003
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On Monday (July 1), University College London released reports from misconduct investigations into the lab of David Latchman, who was a prominent geneticist at the university and is now head of Birkbeck, University of London. The documents describe evidence of research fraud in Latchman’s research group from separate investigations conducted in 2014, 2015, and 2016.
In the first investigation by University College London (UCL), a panel checked 28 papers dating back to 1997 from Latchman’s lab and found evidence of research malpractice in eight of them. The second investigation looked at 32 papers and uncovered signs of misconduct in seven of them.
The university received a third set of allegations in 2016 of “data fabrication, falsification, manipulation and plagiarism” for seven papers published between 2002 and 2008. Two separate ...
