Re: "Scientific misconduct" in gov't data

[Kerembaev@cs.com]

Jim,

I am not surprised about that.
Why HP community should be different from the others?
Every industry has its "group interesses" and usually more than one group.
HP "industry" is not special at this. 
Sometimes, I am trying to defined our "group interesses" or "groups by 
interest".
I shell leave those thoughts of the list.

Morality? Look on the doctors. They have an oath. We do not.

Best regards,
Emil.
kerembaev@cs.com




In a message dated 12/19/99 3:32:40 Pacific Standard Time, 
muckerheide@mediaone.net writes:

<<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
 ============
 
 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 to published results used in crafting a rule or unpublished data cited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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