WHEN SCIENCE TURNS SUSPECT

摘要

Cancer researcher Kenneth Pienta was flipping through a paper written by a promising young postdoc in his University of Michigan laboratory when he spotted something that made his stomach sink: two protein blots that looked remarkably similar. Too similar. Pienta knew there could be only one explanation for the identical images: The woman had doctored the data. He quickly notified university officials and then confronted his postdoc, who insisted she had done nothing wrong. Was she telling the truth? If not, could her other papers be bogus too?