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Guest post: Why I commented on the proposed changes to U.S. federal...
Retraction Watch readers may know that the U.S. Office of Research Integrity, which has oversight of misconduct investigations of work funded by the National Institutes of Health, has proposed changes...
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What analyzing 30 years of US federal research misconduct sanctions revealed
A U.S. federal agency that oversees research misconduct investigations and issues sanctions appears to be doling out punishments fairly, according to researchers who analyzed summaries of the agency’s...
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Could ‘write once/read many’ discourage cheating?
TJ O’Neil In a recent Science editorial, Barbara Redman and our Ivan Oransky called for a boost to the budget and authority of the U.S. Office of Research Integrity (ORI). In this letter, a...
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‘Lab shenanigans’: TikTok influencer faked data, feds say
Darrion Nguyen A well-known content creator and former lab technician at Baylor College of Medicine in Texas admitted taking “several shortcuts” in work that has been found to contain falsified data...
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Pharmaceutical researcher faked data in two papers, says federal watchdog
Shaker Mousa A former professor and vice provost for research at the Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences in New York, falsified data in two published papers, according to findings from the...
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Former Maryland dept. chair with $19 million in grants faked data in 13...
Richard Eckert A former department chair engaged in research misconduct in work funded by 19 grants from the National Institutes of Health, according to the U.S. Office of Research Integrity. Richard...
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Former Harvard cancer researcher plagiarized data, federal watchdog says
A former research fellow at Harvard Medical School faked data and used images from another scientist without attribution in a published paper and two grant applications, according to findings from the...
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Exclusive: One university’s three-year battle to retract papers with fake data
Richard Eckert In 2021, the provost of the University of Maryland, Baltimore sounded the alarm about a troubling batch of papers from the lab of Richard Eckert, the former chair of the Department of...
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Former Columbia University psychiatrist committed research misconduct, says...
Bret Rutherford A psychiatry researcher who received a warning letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration earlier this year committed research misconduct, another federal watchdog found. Bret...
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Exclusive: U.S. federal research integrity teams take hits with departures
Amid efforts by the Trump administration to “put an end to fraudulent and wasteful spending” and “enhance” accountability, two key offices charged with investigating fraud and holding scientists and...
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