Possible misconduct found in papers from Italian minister of health

An Italian newspaper has found duplicated images in eight cancer papers co-authored by the country’s minister of health, Orazio Schillaci. Schillaci, a physician with a Ph.D. in nuclear medicine, published the papers between 2018 and 2022 while working in the faculty of medicine of the University of Rome Tor Vergata.

Still, the duplications raise the question of whether being a rector—or a cabinet minister—is compatible with highly productive experimental activity. It’s the question the scientific community has been grappling with since the president of Stanford University, Marc Tessier-Lavigne, announced his resignation in July following an investigation into practices in his laboratory. “You cannot do two jobs and do them both well,” Bik says.

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