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Fraud case we might have seen coming

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Vigilance over early signs of misconduct is crucial to tackling scientific fraud.

Nobody likes to hear 'I told you so', not least over something that has had far-reaching consequences. But when David Baker read an article reporting that Luk Van Parijs, a former associate professor of immunology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, had been convicted of grant fraud, he felt compelled to leave a brief anonymous comment noting that he had raised concerns over Van Parijs' data 14 years earlier.

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