How are the feds able to stick a wire fraud charge on almost anything except for academic fraud? It's one thing to make a mistake like Reinhart and Rogoff's embarrassing excel blunder. It's entirely something else to falsify data.
> Under Zlokovic’s leadership, the USC institute has expanded to more than 30 labs and grown its annual funding more than 10-fold, exceeding $39 million in 2022. NIH grants to Zlokovic have totaled about $93 million. A prodigious fundraiser, in the past decade alone he has added at least $28 million from private sources, according to USC.
So the NIH has given the man $93m. Surely that's a place to start?
> Under Zlokovic’s leadership, the USC institute has expanded to more than 30 labs and grown its annual funding more than 10-fold, exceeding $39 million in 2022. NIH grants to Zlokovic have totaled about $93 million. A prodigious fundraiser, in the past decade alone he has added at least $28 million from private sources, according to USC.
So the NIH has given the man $93m. Surely that's a place to start?