Universities scramble to assess scope of falsified results

摘要

Biologists are rushing to quantify the fallout from a case of scientific misconduct unmasked last week. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) confirmed on 27 October that it had fired immunologist Luk Van Parijs for fabricating and falsifying data. The institute said that Van Parijs, an associate professor of biology, had acknowledged to its officials that he altered data in one published article, in unpublished manuscripts and in grant applications. The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and Harvard University have both now opened inquiries into some of Van Parijs's other published work.