Retraction Watch, under the title "UCLA walks back claim that application for $50 million grant included fake data," reports that the university has published an odd notice. UCLA originally alleged that a researcher in the health sciences had faked data in eleven research studies - studies named explicitly in official university and government reports.* It now says there was actually faked data in only ten of them.** From the Retraction Watch article:
...How, we asked both UCLA and ORI [federal Office of Research Integrity], did a report that would have had to be reviewed by multiple officials – and lawyers – at both institutions include such a mistake? Neither would say. An ORI spokesperson said:
We have no further comment beyond that we were notified by the institution that a grant had been included erroneously.
And a UCLA spokesperson referred us to the ORI correction:
As indicated in the Federal Register...,*** “Due to additional information provided by the institution to the Office of Research Integrity, it was determined that NIH grant application UL1 TR000124 did not fund or contain falsified/fabricated data; therefore, this grant application has been removed from the findings of research misconduct reported in FR Doc. 2022–16867.”
Retraction Watch promises to pursue this matter.
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***https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2022-09-16/pdf/2022-20070.pdf. (Scroll down.)
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https://ia601402.us.archive.org/25/items/big-ten/fake%20data.mp3
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