"Scientific misconduct" in gov't data

[Muckerheide <muckerheide@mediaone.net>]

Group,

FYI from Science, Dec 17, the "ScienceScope" section: Some interests
try to pursue government dishonesty. When will the 'nuclear industry'
learn? 

Perhaps they would even have/acquire the competence to assess the data
if they get it? When will the "nuclear industry" do so? 

Would they also pursue "scientific misconduct" if the scientists
"cooked" the data to meet EPA demands, like radiation health effects
data/scientists? (recall Otto Raabe's email on the data falsified by
Mays and Lloyd for BEIR IV).

Consider allegations on a few dozen of the worst offenders. Re our
challenge on Geoffrey Howe's appointment to the BEIR VII Committee, he
has been removed, along with Chris Whipple. Identification of
falsified data is welcome (privately as well as on the lsit).
 
Regards, Jim
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Data Grab

Hoping to pry open the Clinton Administration's narrow interpretation
of a new law that gives the public access to raw research data, the
U.S. Chamber of Commerce last week set the stage for a legal challenge
by requesting data used to support several Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) regulations and policies.

Universities breathed a sigh of relief earlier this fall when the
White House Office of Management and Budget limited the public's reach
to published results used in crafting a rule or unpublished data cited
in a regulation, and said only data collected under grants made after
6 November were open to scrutiny (Science, 8 October, p. 209). But
such restrictions are "improper," according to chamber vice president
William Kovacs. His group has asked for raw data from several older
studies used by EPA, including a 1993 Harvard University air pollution
analysis that prompted the campaign to force researchers to share
their data. Kovacs expects EPA to deny the requests within a couple of
months. If so, the chamber will sue the government.
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