December 15, 2000

Clinton Administration Issues New Definition of Scientific Misconduct

By JEFFREY BRAINARD

The Clinton administration has published a new policy that defines scientific misconduct and describes how universities should investigate it. The policy offers clarifications but no major changes from an earlier draft, which many researchers had praised, but some had called inadequate.

The policy, published in the December 6 Federal Register, is meant to deal with confusion and complaints voiced by researchers about the government's previous policies on

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