A legal dispute with potentially far-reaching implications for the way universities investigate scientific misconduct cases has been generated by the conclusion of a report from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, that one of its researchers published data that had been fabricated. The dispute has raised the question of whether universities should be immune from certain types of civil lawsuit arising from investigations of research misconduct carried out as required by National Institutes of Health (NIH) regulations.
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