Sunday, January 22, 2012

Notice is hereby given

or pin the tail

Notice is hereby given that ORI has taken final action in the following case: Based on an inquiry conducted and written admission obtained by Kansas University and additional analysis conducted by ORI in its oversight review, ORI found that Dr. Gerald Lushington, PhD, Director of the K-INBRE Bioinformatics Core Facility and Director of the Molecular Graphics and Modeling Lab, engaged in research misconduct in research supported by P20RR016475. Specifically, ORI found that Respondent engaged in research misconduct by approving publication of 3 articles and 1 abstract he knew contained significant amounts of plagiarized text without attribution or citation from other writers’ published papers. . . .

4 comments:

KAP said...

Good for ORI. Now maybe they'll have time to get around to Wegman?

Hank Roberts said...

> a massive push of methane into the stratosphere

Oh, no problem. We'll get a methane-releasing photosynthesizing bacterium out of the biofuels lab and into the air, a lightweight and UV-resistant one with a rapid doubling time, drift that into the intertropical convergence where the cumulus gets to the edge of the stratosphere, and we'll have that massive push for you ....

wait, that wasn't what you wanted?

Anonymous said...

Out of morbid curiosity, when was the Lushington investigation initiated?

Can a timeline for a possible Wegman result be inferred fromthis?


Bernard J. Hyphen-Anonymous XVII, Esq.

Anonymous said...

Damn you, KAP!

That elephant in the room really though he was going to remain invisible. ;-)

Cymraeg llygoden