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|Resource Type=Cases
|Title=Misconduct oversight at the DOE: Investigation closed
|Is About=A legal case about public access to documents is raising questions about the US Department of Energy's scrutiny of alleged scientific misconduct. On 6 April, a federal district judge in Boston, Massachusetts, dismissed a lawsuit that I had filed in 2009 under the US Freedom of Information Act. He concluded that the US government does not have to release a report on an investigation into a case of alleged scientific misconduct at a national laboratory. The ruling was disappointing but liberating: I finally had occasion to write about a case that has shown how the US Department of Energy (DOE) takes a strikingly hands-off approach to the oversight of such investigations.
|Important For=RIO
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|Has Link=https://www.nature.com/articles/475020a
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|Involves=Pennycook
|Has Timepoint=2011
|Has Location=USA
|Has Virtue And Value=Honesty; Reliability
|Related To Research Area=PE - Physical Sciences and Engineering
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