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Probably not tomorrow, certainly not today. In a speech just three hours after the House committee voted, Reagan said, "A freeze now would be a very dangerous fraud," creating "merely the illusion of peace." He and other opponents of an immediate freeze argue that it is a simplistic, unworkable prescription that could hobble U.S. arms negotiators in Geneva. They claim, too, that it would perpetuate the Soviet nuclear advantage that they believe exists. Reagan, who would surely veto any freeze measure Congress passed, had never so bitterly denounced the popular movement. "If you're going to hit hard...
Pharaon persuaded Swiss authorities to file a criminal indictment for fraud against Tannoury. Pharaon's advisers suspect that the Gaddafi "offer" and the Venezuelan connection were a hoax. Moreover, they believe Tannoury probably never matched Pharaon's investment and may have simply pocketed the sheik's $14 million...
Last week the National Institutes of Health released the results of a yearlong investigation into Darsee's misconduct; it announced that he would be barred from receiving federal grant funds and contracts for ten years, the harshest penalty for fraud it has ever imposed. The NIH report not only documented Darsee's abuses at Harvard, but also raised serious doubts about the veracity of research he had carried out earlier at Emory...
...that the Harvard data were inconsistent with the rest. Only then did Braunwald and Kloner inform NIH officials about the incident in May. Investigations into Darsee's work were formally initiated by both Dean Tosteson and the NIH. Meanwhile, Braunwald and Kloner redoubled their efforts to unmask the fraud. Said Braunwald last week: "We began to think like Sherlock Holmes...
...recent years there has been a growing number of such "disappointing events" in laboratories around the country. Yale, Cornell and Boston University have each had to contend with embarrassing cases of scientific fraud. According to a number of scientists, the tremendous pressures to "publish or perish" may be a factor in the trend. These pressures have been exacerbated by the intense competition for limited federal research funds. "Science is more expensive these days," says Albert H. Hastorf, Stanford's provost. "You need a big grant or you are out of business." Many leading research institutions have attempted to deal...