News analysis
The legal beat science has been missing
Research integrity, lab power, funding abuse, and AI externalities are no longer side issues. They are legal news stories about evidence, institutions, money, and responsibility.
Research misconduct
Fraud in the record
Fabricated data, image manipulation, plagiarism, fake review, paper mills, and disputed retractions.
Academic bullying
Power inside labs
Supervisor abuse, retaliation, authorship pressure, hostile labs, and institutional non-response.
Academic inequality
Credit and access
Authorship exclusion, precarity, discrimination, visa dependence, pay gaps, and unequal access to funding.
Grant fraud
Money and disclosure
False claims, duplicate support, conflicts of interest, undisclosed affiliations, and diverted research funds.
Briefs
What this desk will publish
Case briefs
Short legal summaries of misconduct findings, funding investigations, court filings, and institutional reports.
Source reports
Monitored updates from ORI, NSF OIG, DOJ, Retraction Watch, Science, Scopus, PubPeer, and journal notices.
Community dossiers
Verified submissions from researchers, students, whistleblowers, and institutional insiders with careful evidence handling.
Policy explainers
Readable guides to research misconduct rules, authorship disputes, grant compliance, retaliation, and due process.
Source desk
Monitored sources
Retraction Watch
Retractions, corrections, publishing disputes, and integrity cases
U.S. Office of Research Integrity
Research misconduct findings and oversight guidance
NSF Office of Inspector General
Grant fraud, audits, research security, and misconduct oversight
U.S. Department of Justice
False Claims Act settlements and research-funding enforcement
Science
Search science.org for science-policy and integrity coverage
Scopus
Track cross-disciplinary literature and citation patterns
Community
A verified social layer for science law
The social product should protect evidence, sources, and due process. ORCID verification is live now; Web of Science remains a portal entry unless its OAuth/API contract becomes available.