Word: misconducts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Figures reported as the annual caseload of the honor court, which also treats social misconduct. They therefore may include both social and academic cases...
Both the admission of misconduct and the public disclosure of punitive action against a ranking KGB officer were virtually unheard-of events. They seemed to indicate that even the elite secret police will not be immune to Mikhail Gorbachev's calls for glasnost, a program of openness aimed at exposing shortcomings and abuses of power in Soviet life. Some analysts speculate that the Kremlin is determined to bring the KGB under control. It will undoubtedly take time, and more disciplinary actions, before KGB agents lose their enthusiasm for trampling on the civil rights of Soviet citizens. But the incident...
...them in his letter. The first came in 1981, when an associate professor in a laboratory at the Brigham and Women's Hospital, John R. Darsee, admitted to fabricating data. An investigation resulted in the retraction of a series of reported findings in scientific journals. The recent disclosure of misconduct by a post-doctoral fellow in the laboratory of Ellis Reinherz at the Harvard-affiliated Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has lent a kind of scientific confirmation to the occurrence of fraud at Harvard. The professional misbehavior has been independently repeated, gaining the same criterion of reliability that the errant scientists...
...reassessment of the environment of scientific research, rather than a quick fix. The dean could perhaps help to resolve his own perplexity about research fraud, if he remembered that he presides over an institution that creates the "pressure" to perform--the explanation often cited by unscrupulous scientists for their misconduct...
...letter marked the third time Tosteson has addressed the faculty on professional misconduct. He was reacting to the second major case of falsified research at the medical area in five years...