Duke University has admitted that one of its lab
technicians falsified or fabricated research data on respiratory
illnesses that were used to get large grants from the Environmental
Protection Agency.
The admission came Sunday in legal filings that
respond to a federal whistleblower lawsuit, which the school tried to
get dismissed, by former lab analyst Joseph Thomas, according to the Durham Herald-Sun.
Thomas claims in his lawsuit that the allegedly fake research data of
Erin Potts-Kant, who worked eight years at a Duke medical school lab,
was used by the prestigious university and some of its professors to
fraudulently obtain federal grants. Thomas also claims Duke tried to
hide the alleged fraud.
Thomas alleges that all or nearly all the work Potts-Kant did during her
eight years at Duke compromised grants worth $112.8 million to Duke and
another $120.9 million to institutions like UNC-Chapel Hill and North
Carolina State University, the Herald-Sun said...more
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