Word: research
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Just where is all this money going?" respond government officials, who believe that scientists--their impressive degrees notwithstanding--may be guilty of misusing government research grants...
Perhaps the most celebrated case of scientific conduct (or misconduct, depending on whom you talk to) is the accusations that a 1986 article in Cell magazine contained fudged data. Dr. David Baltimore, the Nobel prizewinning director of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research at MIT, was one of six authors of the research paper on genetic transplants. Although Baltimore was never formally accused of any wrongdoing, a congressional investigation found the scientific equivalent of a smoking gun in the laboratory of one of his co-authors. Their research project was being funded in part by a grant from the National...
Baltimore, still in the midst of the House investigation, was recently offered the presidency of Rockefeller University, a national center for research and teaching that relies extensively on contributions and grants...
...faculty. Many believe that Baltimore's protective and somewhat arrogant attitude during the investigation raises serious doubts about his qualifications. Even if Baltimore is innocent of wrongdoing, as he probably is, his disinclination toward rooting out fraud among his colleagues is a poor example for the head of a research institution...
...surprisingly, these recommendations all originated within the scientific community itself, the only group that can adequately deal with the problem of research fraud. Congress is not qualified to judge the accuracy of primary data, nor is it qualified to determine whether a flaw is a deliberate deception or an honest mistake...