Abstract
Congress is again about to raise the heat on the issue of misconduct in science. A draft bill aimed at making it easier to vigorously pursue allegations of wrongdoing is circulating. And separately, Rep. John D. Dingell (D.-Mich.) is gearing up for round three of his probe into the circumstances surrounding errors in a paper by Nobelist David Baltimore and coworkers. The draft bill, to be introduced by the chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space & Technology, Rep. Robert A. Roe (D.-N.J.), would protect whistle-blowers from legal harassment. It also would provide immunity from libel charges to individuals and institutions that investigate cases of scientific misconduct—so long as they provide certain safeguards to the targets of investigation, such as the right to be represented by a lawyer. In addition, scientific journals that act on or report on such investigations would be granted immunity. The bill is meant to address some of the problems ...
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