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Allegations of Misconduct...
...would not comment on the case because of apolicy which prevents them from discussing opencases and cases that have been closed withoutfinding evidence of scientific misconduct, saidDr. Kay Fields '63, a senior scientist...
...shopping malls are expected to forbid smoking by the end of this year. Cleveland's stadium is one of 20 * major-league baseball parks to go smokeless; the American Medical Association has urged the majors to ban smoking in all 28. Tobacco companies are under increasing fire for alleged misconduct and cover-ups. Last month Representative Waxman charged that in 1983 tobacco giant Philip Morris discovered the first strong evidence that nicotine is addictive but suppressed the study. Waxman has called the top brass from Philip Morris and six other cigarette firms to testify before his subcommittee about their practices...
Maybe not. But last week, after the Chicago Tribune broke the news of Poisson's misconduct, it was clear that his "white lies" were a breach of science's code of honor. Physicians were aghast, government officials were embarrassed, and breast-cancer victims were fretting about whether they had received the best treatment. Coming in the wake of a whole series of highly publicized allegations of fraud in the scientific world -- some unjustified -- the clear-cut case against Poisson dealt a new blow to the reputation of the research community. Said a federal scientist involved with the investigation: "This...
Steven Cook dropped his $10 million sexual-abuse lawsuit against Chicago's Joseph Cardinal Bernardin, admitting that his hypnotically retrieved memories of sexual misconduct by Bernardin in the mid-1970s were "unreliable...