>a fourth reason is an appalling lack of enforcement by federal and state agencies that are supposed to monitoring scientific misconduct. According to The New Y

>a fourth reason is an appalling lack of enforcement by federal and state agencies that are supposed to monitoring scientific misconduct. According to The New York Times, a new Congressional report shows that the FDA takes years to investigate researchers accused of scientific fraud, which means that many of these scientists remain eligible to conduct research Riiight. Like the gov't's witch-hunt against a researcher, Thereza Imanishi-Kari, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Baltimore#Imanishi-Kari_case http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Baltimore#Imanishi-Kari_c... , and documented more extensively in Kevles book, "The Baltimore Case".