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The Food and Drug Administration denies that it targeted more than five of its scientists or any congressional staff, outside medical experts or journalists in a surveillance operation to identify who leaked confidential information to the media. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, called on the Justice Department this week to investigate what he deemed the FDA’s […]

Wall Street Journal (December 15, 2011). If you’re among the 34% of Americans who have seen wrongdoing at their job, you may want to add this book to your Christmas wish list. Just don’t let your boss catch you reading it. Last week, the National Whistleblower Center announced the release of the second edition of “The […]

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Pathology records are at the centre of a new disagreement over disgraced medic Andrew Wakefield. It is one of the most serious allegations that could be made about a doctor: manipulating patients’ histories to make money. So it is no wonder that the charges, levied by editors of the British Medical Journal (BMJ) in January […]