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Duke in hot water - BostonCard - 03-25-2019
https://apple.news/AB_LPd3LRSwqKAkbX8q51LQ
Not sports related, but a big fine for falsifying data for federal grants.
BC
RE: Duke in hot water - Nan3cy - 03-25-2019
Just what is needed right now -- an excuse for science skeptics to debunk the usefulness and importance of primary research. Yuck.
RE: Duke in hot water - burger - 03-25-2019
More detail in this NPR story. I guess a whistleblower reported fraud and the the university sat on the information. Not smart.
https://www.npr.org/2019/03/25/706604033/duke-whistleblower-gets-more-than-33-million-in-research-fraud-settlement
RE: Duke in hot water - CTcard - 03-25-2019
(03-25-2019, 02:50 PM)burger Wrote: More detail in this NPR story. I guess a whistleblower reported fraud and the the university sat on the information. Not smart.
https://www.npr.org/2019/03/25/706604033/duke-whistleblower-gets-more-than-33-million-in-research-fraud-settlement
So, has anybody read that article and figured out if the following phrase "the [research] technician was fired for embezzling money from the university" refers to Joseph Thomas the former lab analyst or Erin Potts-Kant the former clinical research coordinator?
RE: Duke in hot water - 82lsju - 03-25-2019
(03-25-2019, 08:19 PM)CTcard Wrote:(03-25-2019, 02:50 PM)burger Wrote: More detail in this NPR story. I guess a whistleblower reported fraud and the the university sat on the information. Not smart.
https://www.npr.org/2019/03/25/706604033/duke-whistleblower-gets-more-than-33-million-in-research-fraud-settlement
So, has anybody read that article and figured out if the following phrase "the [research] technician was fired for embezzling money from the university" refers to Joseph Thomas the former lab analyst or Erin Potts-Kant the former clinical research coordinator?
Quote:“Duke discovered the possible research misconduct in 2013 after [Potts-Kant] was fired for embezzling money from the university, which also occurred over the same period,” the university noted in a statement released today. Potts-Kants “eventually pled guilty to two counts of forgery and paid restitution to Duke.”
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/03/duke-university-settles-research-misconduct-lawsuit-1125-million
Quote:The researcher, biologist Erin Potts-Kant, later pled guilty to siphoning more than $25,000 from the Duke University Health System,
http://fisherynation.com/archives/tag/biologist-erin-potts-kant
Quote:Potts-Kant admitted to altering some of the data, but maintained that the experiments were actually run. According to Duke's filings, Potts-Kant told the Ad Hoc Investigation Committee, which investigated her research following her arrest, that she had “fabricated and/or falsified [data] that were included in various publications and grant applications..."
https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2018/11/erin-potts-kant-duke-university-lawsuit-almost-settled