November 19, 1999

Federal Office of Research Integrity Adjusts to a New Role

By JEFFREY BRAINARD

Ever since the federal Office of Research Integrity was founded, in 1992, it has been a lightning rod for university researchers who resented its investigations of scientific fraud.

Now its days of conducting such probes have ended. Last month, Donna Shalala, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, who oversees the office, transferred that authority to the department's Inspector General. The research-integrity agency will now focus on a kinder, gentler mission -- training and

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