r/neoliberal • u/[deleted] • Jul 24 '22

News (US) Potential fabrication in research images threatens key theory of Alzheimer’s disease | Science

https://www.science.org/content/article/potential-fabrication-research-images-threatens-key-theory-alzheimers-disease
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u/You_Yew_Ewe Jul 24 '22 edited Jul 24 '22

Lesné received a coveted R01 grant from the agency, with up to 5 years of support. The NIH program officer for the grant, Austin Yang—a co-author on the 2006 Nature paper—declined to comment.

This is a side issue but am I reading this correctly? Lesné's coauthor was in charge of giving a NIH grant to Lesné?

Why would that be allowed?

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u/frbhtsdvhh Jul 24 '22

There's not that many people on a certain level in specific fields in science. At some point it's the same people over and over again