Leeds disunited: there is no substitute for openness in the handling of allegations of scientific misconduct
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The failure of University of Leeds' officials to investigate charges of scientific misconduct promptly and openly illustrates how such inquiries should not be conducted. The case involved Chris Chapman, an immunologist at the English university's teaching hospital, who complained that colleagues had falsely claimed that the lymphokine interleukin-6 had been tested in vivo. The university's slow response to Chapman, its efforts to keep the matter from the public and the subsequent termination of Chapman's employment made the investigation look less than completely honest.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1992
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Gallo on the rack: the latest government pronouncement raises questions about the office itself as well as about Gallo
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Robert C. Gallo has been called a liar by the Health and Human Services Department's Office of Research Integrity. A report issued in Jan 1993 says that Gallo lied when he claimed in a 1984 paper that an alleged AIDS virus developed by Luc Montagnier of the Pasteur Institute had not been transmitted to a permanent cell line. What is evident is the sloppiness that was rampant in Gallo's lab. It is unlikely that much will be solved now about whether Gallo knowingly used Montagnier's virus.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1993
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Ill-advised 'freedom' of scientific information: The sharing of data by researchers ought to be encouraged. But a compulsion to release raw data and notes in current US openness laws is the wrong way to achieve it, as is a proposed amendment
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A new law, passed in October, could undermine academic research and draw it more closely under the wing of the federal government. The act aims to ensure that all data produced under a federal research grant be available to the public, under procedures covered by the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). An amendment by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) would make data available under FOIA only after research findings have been published.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1999
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