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Indian scientist to be sacked for faking research data
Thursday January 12, 2012 09:00:11 PM,
IANS
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London: An
Indian-origin scientist will be dismissed for falsifying the data
in more than 100 instances while doing research at a US university
on the benefits of red wine on cardiovascular health.
Dipak Das, director of the Cardiovascular Research Centre at the
University of Connecticut, gained attention for research into an
ingredient in red wine that has shown potential for promoting
health, the Daily Mail reported.
Though the university did not say whether the falsifications
occurred in research on that topic, its spokesman said the
university was "deeply disappointed by the flagrant disregard" for
conduct codes.
The university found 145 instances of fabricated, falsified and
manipulated data, and has now started dismissal proceedings
against Das.
Nearly a dozen scientific journals were warned of potential
problems after they published the professor's studies.
The university said it started investigating Das' work after
receiving an anonymous complaint in 2008 of potential
irregularities in his research.
The university's health centre recently declined to accept
$890,000 in grants awarded to Das as its review was under way, and
has frozen all other external funding for his lab.
The university report found what it called "a pervasive attitude
of disregard within the lab" for commonly accepted scientific
practices.
It also said there were so many problems -- and over so many years
-- that the review board members "can only conclude that they were
the result of intentional acts of data falsification and
fabrication, designed to deceive".
It said data was digitally altered, data from one experiment was
used to justify findings in another, and controls from one
experiment were used to denote another experiment's controls.
Philip Austin, the university's health affairs vice president,
said they were "deeply disappointed by the flagrant disregard" for
conduct codes, but grateful that the anonymous tipster notified
authorities.
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