linkedin post 2013-06-12 05:20:13

FRAUD IN SCIENCE is relatively rare but especially troublesome when it comes to data on medicines. More commonly it relates to scientific publications aimed at securing academic tenure. On occasion, it relates to faking data to get investors. I have been privy to two cases if the latter type. In one case, Dr Glenn Elion of Chatham MA, nephew of the Nobel prizewinner, faked the cloning of the spider silk gene in a scheme to defraud friends and family out of millions for his company, which turned out to be a front for money laundering and making counterfeit currency. He went to jail.

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