<story><title>Tufts Ph.D. ‘Punished’ for Reporting Adviser’s Fabricated Research: Lawsuit</title><url>https://www.thedailybeast.com/kristy-meadows-tufts-university-graduate-punished-for-reporting-advisers-fabricated-research-lawsuit</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>This sort of situation is something I suggest people think about ahead of time. If you decompose it into the basic&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;I just discovered that some one, or my company&amp;#x2F;institution, on which my livelihood currently depends, is engaged in fraudulent&amp;#x2F;immoral&amp;#x2F;illegal&amp;#x2F;unethical activies.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;The next question is &amp;quot;Now what do I do?&amp;quot; It ranges from report it and leave immediately, to let the leadership know you are there to help. When I was at Intel I discovered that someone within Intel was selling memory chips that had &amp;#x27;binned out&amp;#x27; (failed one of the edge cases tested post production) on the grey market. I took the path of reporting it, which ended up in this employee&amp;#x27;s dismissal. My manager at the time talked with me and said that while he admired my integrity he wondered if I understood the risk I had taken. We talked about it, and the number of people that had to be working together in order for this little scheme to work, and they only fired one guy. The implication was that there were still an unknown number of people at the company who knew (or suspected) that I had interrupted their gravy train. At least one of them had to be reasonably high up the management chain. So now I likely had &amp;#x27;enemies&amp;#x27; where before I was just an unknown.&lt;p&gt;You might think, &amp;quot;Wow, are people really thinking like that?&amp;quot; and my experience suggests that yes, they really do.&lt;p&gt;So think about the consequences of being the &amp;quot;good guy&amp;quot; can be just as painful for you in a different way than they are for the &amp;quot;bad guy.&amp;quot; It isn&amp;#x27;t an easy choice.</text></comment>
<story><title>Tufts Ph.D. ‘Punished’ for Reporting Adviser’s Fabricated Research: Lawsuit</title><url>https://www.thedailybeast.com/kristy-meadows-tufts-university-graduate-punished-for-reporting-advisers-fabricated-research-lawsuit</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aphextim</author><text>&amp;gt;When she approached Byrnes with this discovery, her adviser told her that “it was fine to publish this data, because if they had done the experiment, this data reflected the result they would have gotten,” the lawsuit claims.&lt;p&gt;This seems pretty alarming.</text></comment>