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Van Parijs avoided jail after several prominent scientists wrote letters begging for clemency on his behalf and was sentenced to home detention, community service and financial restitution.<ref>https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2011/03/former-mit-researcher-convicted-fraud</ref>
 
Van Parijs avoided jail after several prominent scientists wrote letters begging for clemency on his behalf and was sentenced to home detention, community service and financial restitution.<ref>https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2011/03/former-mit-researcher-convicted-fraud</ref>
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Biologist Spared Jail For Grant Fraud

What is this about?

This is a factual case describing how an immunologist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Luk Van Parijs, was found to be solely responsible for more than 11 incidents of data fabrication in grant applications and papers submitted between 1997 and 2004. [1]

Van Parijs avoided jail after several prominent scientists wrote letters begging for clemency on his behalf and was sentenced to home detention, community service and financial restitution.[2]

Why is this important?

The case illustrates that coming clean promptly can be a good strategy for those who have committed scientific misconduct.

The case can spur awareness of early signs.[1]

  1. https://www.nature.com/news/2011/110728/full/news.2011.437.html

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