Abstract
A Congressional subcommittee has the stakes in the ongoing probe into allegations of scientific misconduct surrounding a paper published four years ago by Nobel Laureate David Baltimore, Tufts University immunologist Thereza Imanishi-Kari, and their coworkers. Secret Service agents testified last week before the House Energy & Commerce Committee's Oversight & Investigations Subcommittee that substantial portions of a key lab notebook of Imanishi-Kari's were falsified. In addition, an official of the National Institutes of Health told the panel that NIH had cut off a grant to Imanishi-Kari because NIH's own independent investigation had raised significant questions about her fitness to hold a PHS [Public Health Service] research grant. Rep. John D. Dingell (D.-Mich.), chairman of both the full committee and the subcommittee, and Rep. Ron Wyden (D.-Ore.) said at the end of the hearing that they want federal prosecutors to look into charging Imanishi-Kari with perjury and submitting false documents ...
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