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It's possible that there was perhaps insufficient supervision by the PI, or not enough senior people in the lab hierarchy, but I suspect most labs are not equpp
by cozzyd 3y ago
It's possible that there was perhaps insufficient supervision by the PI, or not enough senior people in the lab hierarchy, but I suspect most labs are not equpped to handle someone who is outright deceitful and sufficiently good at lying.
- RcouF1uZ4gsC 3y agoMaking up data wholesale without even using the lab equipment is something that should be caught with even minimum standards of supervision. This isn’t subtle fudging of numbers or something that can be harder to detect.
- renonce 3y agoThe problem in this case is not that it’s not detected at all. I think the more interesting part is how the academic culture made everyone reluctant to conduct the investigation and admit that a misconduct occured.