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j*72011-03-06 08:03

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http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/03/former-mit-re
.html?etoc
Former MIT Researcher Convicted of Fraud
The ordeal isn't over for biologist Luk van Parijs, who was fired by the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2005 after admitting to fabricating
research data. Yesterday, Van Parijs, 40, pleaded guilty in a U.S. District Court in
Boston to one count of making a false statement on a federal grant application.
Van Parijs worked in the field of RNA interference. MIT launched an investigation
after his students and postdocs raised questions about his research and found that he
had fabricated and falsified data in grant applications, submitted manuscripts, and a
published paper. In 2009, the federal Office of Research Integrity found that he had
also falsified data in other publications.
The U.S. attorney's office in Boston announced yesterday that Van Parijs will be
sentenced 14 June and that he could receive up to 5 years in prison and up to a
$250,000 fine. The government alleges that he falsely claimed to have developed a
specific transgenic mouse and to have obtained certain results from an experiment.
According to a plea agreement, the U.S. attorney will not recommend a fine, but Van
Parijs has agreed to pay MIT $61,117 in restitution.

D*a2011-03-06 08:03

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学校这点做得倒不错
– someone who was there
He completely made up the data. His stu
dents and postdocs were sitting in a seminar that he presented when they
started asking each other who had done the experiments he was presenting. No
one in his group recognized the results. As horrible as his behavior was, I
think one needs to consider what a brave and responsible step it was for
the students and postdocs to report him. They knew that they were risking
their careers. There were exactly two outcomes for them: serious backlash if
they were wrong, or having their lab shut down if they were right. A huge
effort was undertaken by the leadership at MIT to A) protect the students
from being tarnished by these events, and B) "resettle" each of them in new
labs with good mentors. The whole thing was a tragedy, but I believe it was
handled as well as could have been.

s*y2011-03-06 08:03

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哪国人？

A*y2011-03-06 08:03

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Old news, and people in the field saying how the retraction of his papers
has little impact to the field.......I guess few papers got cited over 1000
times in the field and have no impact; the field itself is what?

S*s2011-03-06 08:03

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If you look at his training records, you will say that he is well-trained in
pretty good labs.
However, people in the field are saying that Abul Abbas's lab has published
a lot of papers in so-called "high impact" journals but very few people
remember what this lab is really studying.
Luk van Parijs
About 1970: Born in Belgium.
Before 1997: Receives undergraduate education at Cambridge University in
England.
About 1993 - 1997: Works in the laboratory of Harvard professor Dr. Abul
Abbas at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH).
1997: Earns doctorate in immunology from Harvard.
1998 - 2000: Postdoctoral student in the laboratory of Dr. David Baltimore
at MIT and California Institute of Technology.
2000: Joins the biology department at MIT.
2001: Named the Ivan R. Cottrell Career Development Assistant Professor of
Immunology at MIT for a three-year term.
July 2004: Promoted to the rank of associate professor at MIT, without
tenure.
August 2004: MIT begins a confidential investigation when a group of
researchers in van Parijs' laboratory alleges research misconduct.
September 2004: Placed on paid administrative leave and denied access to
laboratory by MIT.
6 October 2005: Caltech begins inquiry (requested by Baltimore, "when New
Scientist pointed out" problems in Caltech papers). (Date & quote: news
media #8 and #18, below, respectively.)
27 October 2005: MIT fires van Parijs.

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【在 j****7 的大作中提到】

: http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/03/former-mit-re
: .html?etoc
: Former MIT Researcher Convicted of Fraud
: The ordeal isn't over for biologist Luk van Parijs, who was fired by the
: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2005 after admitting to fabricating
: research data. Yesterday, Van Parijs, 40, pleaded guilty in a U.S. District Court in
: Boston to one count of making a false statement on a federal grant application.
: Van Parijs worked in the field of RNA interference. MIT launched an investigation
: after his students and postdocs raised questions about his research and found that he
: had fabricated and falsified data in grant applications, submitted manuscripts, and a