Researcher Admits Leaking Study
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A Texas doctor leaked confidential research to the makers of the popular diabetes drug Avandia weeks before a study was published tying the drug to higher heart risks
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After decades of dives, a scientist offers a theory to explain the spectacular deceptions of cephalopods.
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A haemophiliac given contaminated blood over 20 years ago gives evidence at an independent inquiry.
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By Danny Robbins, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Sep. 10--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 researcher for Cornwall MP Candy Atherton claims she asked him to "dig the dirt" on a gay political opponent.
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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 h...
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A researcher says the techniques to stay anonymous online can be thwarted through flaws in the systems.
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If pharmaceutical and medical device companies want their studies published in some of the world&#39;s most prestigious medical journals, they will have to report studies that never see the light of day, commonly referred to as secret studies.
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Find out how one analyst contradicts himself in his report.
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The chief investigator in the case of a farmer charged in the deaths of 26 women conceded Tuesday that he purposely misled the man during interrogation about what his friends and brother had told police.
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A Texas A&M researcher says studies showing connections between video games and violent behavior suffer from shoddy research techniques and bias. In Game|Life.
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Scientist claims he was duped into film appearance.
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The Harvard researchers, who summarized their findings in this week&#39;s edition of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, analyzed data from more than 100,000 participants in two large cohort studies.
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And claims underhand play Security researcher David Maynor got some measure of vindication at the Black Hat DC Conference this year.â¦
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Experts cast doubt on claims that a scientist has made embryos from dead people's tissue.
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If you&#39;re a convicted identity thief, you&#39;ve got about a 50 percent chance of avoiding jail time.That&#39;s one of the findings of a new study of closed U.S. Secret Service case files, released Monday by Utica College&#39;s Center for Identity Management and Information Protection. This is the first time researchers have been allowed to sift through the Secret Service&#39;s data. The study&#39;s authors based their findings on an&#160;analysis of 500 closed Secret Service cases.&quot;Prosecutors had a slightly better chance of sending a convicted identity thief to prison than not (51 percent) and could expect to see the imprisoned offender sentenced to three years or less of incarceration,&quot; the report said.The college has been working with a number of partners, including the Secret Service, IBM, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, since the Center&#39;s creation in mid-2006 to study the methods used by ID thieves and to help corporations and law enforcement prevent this type of crime.Technology like printers, mobile phones, and computers were used in about half of the cases, but the Internet was the exclusive tool of ID thieves only about 10 percent of the time.Identity theft is concentrated in the northeastern and southern United States, the study found. And the majority of the offenders in the Secret Service cases were African-American; more than two-thirds of all offenders were male.The study also found that ID thieves tended to hit people that they did not know, rather than preying on friends and relatives. A family member or friend was the victim in 16 percent of cases. In about a third of the cases, the theft was an inside job, with the data being stolen from an employer.Identity theft is a well-studied phenomenon, but it&#39;s unusual for a survey to be based on this kind of closed-case data. &quot;This study is significant because it did not depend on self-reported or survey data,&quot; the authors wrote.The median loss from identity theft was just over $31,000, but in one case, investigated by the Secret Service&#39;s Dallas field office, the defendant spent millions on luxury vehicles and then managed to set up shell companies and defraud investors. Total losses: $13 million. &quot;In general,&quot; however, &quot;the more offenders involved in the case, the higher the victim loss,&quot; the study stated.According to Javelin Strategy &amp; Research, identity theft cost U.S.businesses and consumers an estimated $49.3 billion in 2006.&#160;
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Blog: Original researcher makes public his own exploit code.