Regulacje i polityka gospodarcza · 31/10/2001

Findings of Scientific Misconduct

Notice is hereby given that the Office of Research Integrity (ORI) has made a final finding of scientific misconduct in the following case: Mr. Sherman Smith, University of California at San Francisco: Based on the report of an investigation conducted by the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) and information obtained by ORI during its oversight review, the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) finds that Mr. Smith, former research technician, Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine at UCSF, engaged in scientific misconduct by intentionally and knowingly fabricating and falsifying patient interview data as the sole interviewer in the PHS-funded UCSF Asthma Disability Study (Asthma Study). The UCSF Asthma Study was funded by National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), National Institutes of Health (NIH), grants K04 HL03225, R01 HL56438, and R29 HL48959, and National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Centers for Disease Control (CDC), grant R01 OH03480. Specifically, Mr. Smith intentionally falsified and fabricated the interviews of 107 patients in the Asthma Study. The falsification of the patient interviews was committed with an intent