Chaos at US government’s research integrity office
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Rebecca Trager2018-04-17T15:20:00
The dramatic drop in misconduct findings from the Office of Research Integrity in the last two years has been blamed on turmoil at the agency
The agency that investigate claims of US scientific misconduct is in chaos and riven by political infighting. This is according to a number of sources close to the organisation that say that this has led to a substantial drop in the number of misconduct findings coming in the last two years. The Office of Research Integrity (Ori) produced only 14 findings of scientific misconduct in the last two years. By comparison, the office issued double that number of such findings in 2015, and 13 the previous year.