Reputations of the scientists involved are already destroyed; however, fringe players will be identified and their reputations destroyed or sullied. (drtimball.com)
The suit raises thorny questions about who bears responsibility for misconduct and how a university should preserve the reputations of scientists in a lab that's under investigation. (science.sciencemag.org)
See, it's cases like this, when big media steamrollers all over the reputation of a scientist, that the UK libel system is designed for. (realclimate.org)