Years of ethics charges and a senior prof gets a pass....

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One of the things that infuriated me about that article is he threw his junior researchers under the bus!

During an interview in October, and in a later statement, Dr. Croce, 72, denied any wrongdoing, said he had been singled out in some of the accusations simply because he was a prominent figure, and largely placed the blame for any problems with figures or text on junior researchers or collaborators at other labs…Any mistakes with figures were “honest errors,” he said, adding that he did not condone plagiarism but that he must rely on co-authors to provide proper attribution.

This is especially egregious given that it was a junior colleague’s grant proposal he allegedly plagiarized. (I’m betting that junior colleague’s “circuitous explanation” was him trying to cover up Croce’s bad behavior, since Croce likely had the power to tank his career. Academia is a small world that relies on networks and word-of-mouth.)