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21 Nov 2012 | 18:07 GMT

Nutrition researcher censured over serial misconduct

Posted by Eugenie Samuel Reich | Categories: Lab life, Policy

Nutrition researcher censured over serial misconduct

At first glance, many of the western blots in the data of nutrition researcher Eric J. Smart, censured yesterday by the US government’s Office of Research Integrity over a 10 year career of misconduct, look innocuous.  Read more

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29 Aug 2012 | 18:31 GMT

ORI: Former Harvard postdoc guilty of misconduct

Posted by Brendan Maher | Categories: Biology & Biotechnology

Flow cytometry data plots were re-used in two different papers by Shane Mayack.

Shane Mayack, a former postdoctoral researcher at the Joslin Diabetes Center, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts engaged in research misconduct by duplicating figures in a pair of publications and poaching figures from other sources according to the US Office of Research Integrity (ORI), which investigates fraud in federally funded research. The misconduct decision, noted yesterday in the Federal Register concludes an investigation into the scientist’s work, which included two papers(1, 2) that were retracted during the past two years, one from this journal.  Read more

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21 Mar 2012 | 06:26 GMT

The new gatekeepers: reducing research misconduct

Posted by Brendan Maher | Categories: Lab life

The new gatekeepers: reducing research misconduct

Mistakes, goofs and outright deceptions litter the scientific literature, but there is something that can be done about it. Scientists, writers and journal editors gathered at Rockefeller University in New York last evening to discuss increases in retracted research over the past several years and how best to correct the research record.  Read more

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