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Did a top NIH official manipulate Alzheimer's and Parkinson’s studies for decades? (alt: Eliezer Masliah's papers under investigation) (web.archive.org)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by zlatiah to c/science

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A Science News report about Dr. Eliezer Masliah (who held a highly important role at the National Institute of Aging), a 300-page dossier composed of misconducts at his lab, as well as followups... Featuring everyone's favorite research integrity sleuths (Elizabeth Bik, Mu Yang, "Cheshire", ...) and more.

Post URL points to archive.org due to soft paywall on Science News. Here's the original link

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[–] zlatiah 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I have a suspicion it's not just an Alzheimer's issue but rather quite systemic to lots of competitive fields in academia... There definitely needs to be guard rails. I think the sad thing with funding is... these days you have to be exceptionally good at grant writing to even have a chance of getting into the lottery, and it mostly feels like a lottery with success rates in the teens... and apparently no grant=no lab, no career for most ppl (seriously why are most PI roles soft money-funded anyway). Hard to not try and cut the corners if there's so much pressure on the line

Not to mention, apparently even if you are a super ethical PI who wants to do nothing wrong, if the lab gets big enough, there might eventually be some unethical postdoc trying to make it big and falsify data (that you don't have time to check) under your name so... how the hell do people guard against that.

I'm honestly impressed how science is still making progress with all of these random nonsense in the field