Thursday, March 20, 2014
"Top U.S. Scientific Misconduct Official Quits in Frustration With Bureaucracy"
Government bureaucracies are just that.
A significant amount of effort is devoted to self-preservation, and the remainder to accomplishing the mission.
The fact that this is part of Health and Human Services, which also oversees healthcare, makes it disconcerting to say the least...
A significant amount of effort is devoted to self-preservation, and the remainder to accomplishing the mission.
The fact that this is part of Health and Human Services, which also oversees healthcare, makes it disconcerting to say the least...
Jocelyn Kaiser-- reported on it on the ScienceMag.org website:
"The director of the U.S. government office that monitors scientific misconduct in biomedical research has resigned after 2 years out of frustration with the 'remarkably dysfunctional' federal bureaucracy. David Wright, director of the Office of Research Integrity (ORI), writes in a scathing resignation letter obtained by ScienceInsider that the huge amount of time he spent trying to get things done made much of his time at ORI 'the very worst job I have ever had.'
ORI, which is part of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), monitors alleged research misconduct by researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other Public Health Service (PHS) agencies. It runs education programs and reviews institutions’ misconduct investigations, each year posting a dozen or so findings of misconduct, defined as fabrication, falsification, or plagiarism. It also recommends PHS sanctions, such as barring researchers from receiving grants. ORI’s visibility has grown recently along with a rise in retracted research papers, some involving misconduct."
