Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Following recent revelations about research fraud in a Harvard-affiliated laboratory, the dean of the Medical School has called on all members of the medical faculty to take personal responsibility for the validity of the work they supervise...
Dean Daniel C. Tosteson said in a December letter to Harvard doctors that he will appoint a small committee of senior faculty members to help him develop procedures to prevent fraud...
Tosteson said that lack of coordination and monitoring within large research teams have been cited as factors that contribute to fraud...
Tosteson said that he intends to bring the matter of fraud prevention before the steering group of the Medical SchoolFaculty and the department chairmen. He askedHarvard doctors to offer suggestions for copingwith the problem...
Although the pressures of competition and thelack of supervision of "young investigators" havebeen cited as causes of fraud, Tosteson said, "itseems unlikely that a single remediable cause willbe found...