Dartmouth misconduct case highlights the mistreatment of junior scientists
The Dartmouth research misconduct case involving Dr. H. Gilbert Welch underscores how often science abuses junior researchers with impunity.
The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice probably isn’t the most collegial of places these days. That’s because Dartmouth officials agreed with Samir Soneji, an associate professor at the New Hampshire university, that his colleague Dr. H. Gilbert Welch, a leading expert on cancer screening and overtreatment, used data that belonged to Soneji and a collaborator in California in a subsequent publication without even a hat tip.
The misappropriation, which was and this week, occurred in a in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine. But rather than retract — or even correct — the paper after
