A principal investigator is accused of pressuring grad students and postdocs to publish papers despite misgivings. The situation involves scientific misconduct, with criticism directed at the PI, the institution, and the journal Nature. There are concerns about failures in biocontainment labs and the CDC's ability to oversee biosafety incidents.
Retrospective of Allison Young's reports on the shocking frequency of US biosafety and biosecurity incidents and the shocking inadequacy of US-government oversight of biosafety and biosecurity UNC coronavirus biosafety incidents (1 of 2) https://t.co/RTRRDqBlTr
"'Overall, the incident shows that failures — even cascading, compounding, catastrophic failures of BSL-4 biocontainment labs occur,' said Ebright'…And the attempted cover-up…makes it clear that the CDC cannot be relied upon to police its own, much less other institutions.'" https://t.co/uuVr9HHmdZ https://t.co/xwpoOS2pHS
"a PI steamrolling his students & postdocs...pressuring everyone to get papers out no matter what misgivings...[because] the PI's word is at some point equivalent to law" https://t.co/iTToATpTo6
"Not too many people come out of this story looking good." The grad students/postdocs were heroes, but the PI, his institution and it's investigatory body, and the elite journal @Nature are worthy of scorn for producing and enabling this scientific misconduct. @MicrobiomDigest https://t.co/c2FoP0xOPU
Too Many Labs Run Like This Derek Lowe writes about ‘a principal investigator steamrolling his own grad students and postdocs, hiding key details and pressuring everyone to get papers out no matter what misgivings they might be feeling.’ https://t.co/68yMxchaiy