Government scientist faces ethics charge
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With a rare criminal case against a senior federal researcher, prosecutors are sending a message to scientists on the government payroll: Making money from companies on the side can land you in big trouble.
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The biologist had ignited an uproar with comments about the intelligence of people of African descent.
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A controversial figure takes charges of a State Department advisory panel.
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Former government science chief accuses activists of jeopardising the fight against global warming
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FORT WORTH, Texas _ Three Nobel Prize-winning scientists have complained to New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer that Web sites are falsely tying their research to the dietary supplements of Mannatech Inc.
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A Chinese researcher for the New York   Times who was sentenced to three years jail for fraud will   contest the conviction after having beat a separate charge of   illegally leaking state secrets, his lawyer said on Monday.
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CHICAGO -- The lead author and peer reviewers of a government report raising the possibility of public health threats from industrial contamination throughout the Great Lakes region are charging that the report is being suppressed because of the questions it raises. The author also alleges that he...
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The Los Alamos National Laboratory paid millions of dollars in questionable charges to a contractor affiliated with KBR, according to a recent audit by the Energy Department's inspector general.
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An investigator had serious misgivings about decisions being made on the case by senior S.E.C. officials.
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A government researcher pleaded guilty Friday to violating federal conflict-of-interest laws by accepting $285,000 in consulting fees from pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc. for work that overlapped his official duties.
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By ED HARRIS  A RENOWNED British scientist failed to disclose that he was being paid by a chemical company for more than 20 years while investigating cancer risks in the industry, it emerged today.
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MONTREAL - The public servant who ran the federal sponsorship program, and two top advertising executives, will face fraud charges in Quebec Superior Court next May.
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A man has been charged in a case involving hundreds of doses of smuggled flu vaccine, apparently to cash in on the national shortage of the inoculations.
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A NASA climate expert planned to say in a lecture that a Bush administration official told him not to discuss the consequences of global warming.
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The chairman of the Senate Finance Committee yesterday called on the inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services to investigate alleged attempts to discredit a Food and Drug Administration whistle-blower.
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Angry members of Congress  took federal health officials to task yesterday for what they said was a pattern of being "soft" on government scientists found to have violated ethics rules.
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Some scientists are thinking twice about doing or reporting certain research, reacting to political and social controversy in addition to legal restrictions.