OF ALL the issues that Â鶹´«Ã½ covers, the most disturbing is bad science. At a time when scientists are fighting as never before for public support against political and religious manipulation, it is demoralising to discover that science is being undermined from within.
Last week Luk Van Parijs, an immunologist and associate professor of biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was fired for research misconduct. The university began investigating Van Parijs more than a year ago when members of his research group complained. According to MIT officials, Van Parijs admitted fabricating and falsifying data in a published paper.…
