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Nature Medicine 13, 392 (2007)
Published online: 28 March 2007 | doi:10.1038/nm0407-392a
Plagiarized report on patent laws shames Indian scientists
T.V. Padma1
- New Delhi
Abstract
Activists seek to dismiss tarnished report's conclusions.
In a major embarrassment to Indian science, one of India's best known scientists Raghunath Mashelkar, who recently retired as head of the prestigious Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), has acknowledged that parts of a government committee report authored by him were plagiarized.The report, which was intended to settle a dispute on India's patent law, has instead itself become a matter of contention.
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