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The US National Institutes of Health have been compelled to put out their rules for investigating misconduct in research for public comment. Not before time.
Quite why Dr David Baltimore, now president of the Rockefeller University, should so vigorously have defended a disputed 1986 paper of which he was a co-author has never been self-evident. Now the paper has been retracted.
Antarctica remains a largely unknown continent. There should be better coordinated research on globally important problems — and the discontents occasioned by the Antarctic Treaty should be defused.