Skip to main content

Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser (or turn off compatibility mode in Internet Explorer). In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles and JavaScript.

US free-speech law offers protection — at a price

Nature volume 471, pages 276–277 (2011)Cite this article

Subjects

Some fear that law to aid whistle-blowers will expose researchers to smear campaigns.

Daniel Klessig has had two open-heart surgeries in the past eight years, and would gladly have two more rather than face another lawsuit like the one brought against him by Meena Chandok, his former postdoctoral researcher, in 2005 after Klessig alleged that she had falsified data.

This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution

Access options

Rent or buy this article

Get just this article for as long as you need it

$39.95

Learn more

Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout

Authors
  1. Eugenie Samuel Reich
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Related links

Related links

Related external links

Public Participation Project

Sense about Science

Campaign for Libel Reform

Rights and permissions

Reprints and Permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Samuel Reich, E. US free-speech law offers protection — at a price. Nature 471, 276–277 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/471276a

Download citation

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/471276a

Search

Advanced search

Quick links

Nature Briefing

Sign up for the Nature Briefing newsletter — what matters in science, free to your inbox daily.

Get the most important science stories of the day, free in your inbox. Sign up for Nature Briefing