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Whistle-blower claims his accusations cost him his job

Nature volume 474, pages 140–141 (2011)Cite this article

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University denies it retaliated against researcher who questioned supervisor's data.

After months of friction that culminated in his openly questioning the reproducibility of data published by his supervisor, a postdoc at the University of Wisconsin–Madison's zoology department was presented with three options. The department's chairman said he could wait to be fired, resign voluntarily or accept a "gracious exit strategy" that would give him time to prepare a paper for publication, if he dropped his "scientific misconduct issues".

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Samuel Reich, E. Whistle-blower claims his accusations cost him his job. Nature 474, 140–141 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/474140a

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