Sylvia Asa, once the head of the largest hospital diagnostic laboratory in Canada, and her husband and collaborator Shereen Ezzat, have spent almost five years fighting
allegations of research misconduct involving data falsification and fabrication in more than a dozen published papers.
have spent almost five years fighting
allegations of research misconduct involving data falsification and fabrication in more than a dozen published papers.
«If a society were to come to me and say, «We have
an allegation of research misconduct involving one of your employees,» my first question would be, «Does it meet our definition of research misconduct?»
Not exact matches
«There are already other reasons why institutions may be reluctant to investigate
allegations involving research misconduct (e.g., time, expense, loss
of revenue, bad publicity),» wrote Ferric Fang, a microbiologist at the University
of Washington, Seattle, in an email to ScienceInsider.
If the NIH ORI receives an
allegation of research misconduct that
involves other federal agencies (i.e., DoD), then the ORI will communicate such
allegations to that agency.
A further line
of attack
involves complaints by members
of the public to scientists» host institutions with
allegations of research misconduct.