At all.
ScienceInsider overviewed a dismal story being reported by The Chronicle of Higher Education. It involves a tale I’ve discussed before with a new twist. ScienceInsider:

In 2008, a Senate investigation found that Nemeroff failed to report at least $1.2 million of more than $2.4 million that he had received for consulting for drug companies. NIH suspended one of Nemeroff’s grants, and in December 2008, Emory announced that it would not allow Nemeroff to apply for NIH grants for 2 years.

As I was just saying, this is the scope of the real problem. Changing the reporting rules from $10K per year to $5K per year does absolutely nothing about a guy who fails to report some or all of his outside activity.
Still, a 2 year suspension sounds like something, doesn’t it?

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At all.
ScienceInsider overviewed a dismal story being reported by The Chronicle of Higher Education. It involves a tale I’ve discussed before with a new twist. ScienceInsider:

In 2008, a Senate investigation found that Nemeroff failed to report at least $1.2 million of more than $2.4 million that he had received for consulting for drug companies. NIH suspended one of Nemeroff’s grants, and in December 2008, Emory announced that it would not allow Nemeroff to apply for NIH grants for 2 years.

As I was just saying, this is the scope of the real problem. Changing the reporting rules from $10K per year to $5K per year does absolutely nothing about a guy who fails to report some or all of his outside activity.
Still, a 2 year suspension sounds like something, doesn’t it?

Read the rest of this entry »