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The publicly funded agency responsible for policing scientific fraud is keeping secret the details surrounding these researchers. Their names, where they worked, and what they did wrong is protected under privacy laws.
Michael Katze, famous for his studies of Ebola and the flu, ran a lab at the University of Washington where intoxication and sexual harassment went unchecked, and where he misused public resources for personal gain, according to two investigations obtained by BuzzFeed News.
Science has never been more powerful, but it is under attack.
Experts preaching the ‘truth’ on healthy eating or cancer cures are not immune to the murky worlds of politics and commerce.
Common compliance situations can get good researchers into trouble, warn James M. DuBois and colleagues.
After hundreds of manipulated images were detected across 40 scientific journals, the real work will be to correct the scientific record.
This study attempted to determine the percentage of published papers containing inappropriate image duplication, a specific type of inaccurate data.
The rationale is simple: More anonymity means more scrutiny for published papers, and more scrutiny means more errors are caught.
Do people think that scientists are bad people? Although surveys find that science is a highly respected profession, a growing discourse has emerged regarding how science is often judged negatively.
Anders Hamsten, has resigned after acknowledging that he mishandled the prestigious Swedish institute's investigation into controversial surgeon Paolo Macchiarini.
The widening scandal surrounding surgeon Paolo Macchiarini and his employment at the Karolinska Insitute in Stockholm has prompted Urban Lendahl, secretary general of the Nobel Assembly, to resign.
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