https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/jun/10/nih-funded-researchers-broke-rules-failing-require/
Taxpayer-funded research projects didn’t
check for scientists taking money from
China: IG
Washington Times, by Ryan Lovelace
Posted By: Ribicon, 6/11/2022 10:23:13 AM
Federal internal investigators have uncovered alarming failures by universities to require scientists doing taxpayer-funded research to disclose when they also pocket money from China and other foreign countries. The Health and Human Services Department inspector general said the failure to enforce disclosure rules exposes critical biomedical research to theft by China. Joanna Bisgaier, deputy regional inspector general who worked on the report, said the widespread disregard for government rules was unanticipated and she did not know if it was attributable to grantees’ ignorance, recklessness or malice.(Snip)More than two-thirds of National Institutes of Health grant recipients examined by the inspector general—69%—failed to require their researchers