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Charles Marwick

JAMA. 1992;268(8):958.

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THE OFFICE of Research Integrity at the National Institutes of Health still may be heard from. But the federal government has decided not to attempt prosecution in one of the nation's most highly publicized recent situations of alleged scientific fraud.

The US attorney involved says he will not seek a criminal indictment in connection with the allegations of falsifying research data and a government civil suit also seems unlikely now. Attempting to take the case to trial would involve addressing scientific issues with which a jury might be unqualified to deal, says Richard Bennett, the government's attorney for the Maryland federal court district.

The matter involves the allegation that Thereza Imanishi-Kari, PhD, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Mass, manufactured data to support published findings (Cell. 1986;45:247-259). The situation has been widely publicized, in part because Nobelist David Baltimore, PhD, is one of the coauthors, but also because of congressional . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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