Abstract
Federal prosecutors have declined to press criminal charges against Thereza Imanishi-Kari, the Tufts University immunologist accused of fabricating data to support a paper she coauthored with Nobel Laureate David Baltimore and four others in 1986. The decision came shortly after a forensic expert hired by Imanishi-Kari's lawyer charged that evidence against her is flawed. Baltimore, claiming vindication, says he will ask the journal Cell to withdraw his retraction last year of the paper about transgenic mice [ 45 , 247 (1986)]. He resigned as president of Rockefeller University last winter under the weight of the controversy, which has dragged on for six years. But the U.S. attorney's office in Baltimore, Md., discounts the forensic expert's claims, and stresses that its decision not to prosecute says nothing about the integrity of Imanishi-Kari's research. It's a mistake to give that kind of weight to a decision made by criminal prosecutors, assistant U.S. attorney Geoffrey R. Garinther tells C&EN. The...
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