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Complaint related to research misconduct, animal abuse filed against the University of North Dakota
From Stacie Van Dyke, ValleyNewsLive.com, March 13, 2023
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (Valley News Live) - A national watchdog group has
filed a Federal Research Misconduct complaint against University of North
Dakota staff regarding a federally funded article in the Journal of
Neurochemistry which has been retracted because it presents false “image
manipulation.”
SAEN, Stop Animal Exploitation Now, is a national watchdog nonprofit that
investigates animal abuse and illegal activities at U.S. research
facilities. The group is alleging the manipulation of images which represent
experimental data is Research Misconduct because the image (data)
manipulation equates with falsification of the data. Falsification of data
fits the legal meaning of Research Misconduct, as defined by the Office of
Research Integrity (ORI), SAEN said. ORI’s definition of falsification
includes: “manipulating research materials, equipment, or processes, or
changing or omitting data or results such that the research is not
accurately represented in the research record”
They say the authors of the journal article were unable to provide the
original data when asked by the publisher to clarify the issues with the
images.
SAEN has contacted the National Institutes of Health’s Office of Research
integrity, calling for a full investigation.
The retracted article also reveals animals used in the experiment suffered
severely, admitting, “Cholesterol-treated animals and their matched controls
were killed 7 months later upon the appearance of severe hypercholesteremic
side-effects that included weight and appetite loss and jaundice.”
Michael A. Budkie, A.H.T., SAEN co-founder, says: “The rabbits who exhibited
appetite loss, weight loss, and jaundice were clearly very ill, and suffered
unrelieved pain. Enduring such agony in support of fraudulent
experimentation is somehow even more heinous.”
The University of North Dakota responded with the following statement:
UND is aware of the allegations of research misconduct levied against a
former faculty member. The matter is currently under review by the
University and we have been coordinating with the appropriate federal
offices and agencies.
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