A recently exposed case of the agency's handling of drugs that reached the market in spite of fraudulent studies is no anomaly. (scientificamerican.com)
When Grassley learned of Han's fraud, he wrote to the ORI, arguing that the 3 - year ban on federal research funding «seems like a very light penalty for a doctor who purposely tampered with a research trial and directly caused millions of taxpayer dollars to be wasted on fraudulent studies.» (sciencemag.org)
I'm afraid your argument reads much like the one we hear from the anti-vaccine advocates who defend Andrew Wakefield — the disgraced physician who published that shamelessly fraudulent study supposedly linking the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine to childhood autism. (judithcurry.com)