Professor David Baker: not just a pretty face



The fraud case he saw coming; well done Prof DB!

Read all about it in Nature News & Science Insider.

The paper David spotted: Van Parijs et al. Role of interleukin 12 and costimulators in T cell anergy in vivo. J Exp Med. 1997 Oct 6;186(7):1119-28.

"Another one of our day jobs is to expose research fraud; unfortunately it is not always this obvious. Fraud not only sends people down the wrong track in terms of scientific discovery, but it makes the general public lose faith in the scientific process. This can't be a good thing. Biases and conflicts of interest are also a problem, but are hopefully not as big a problem to deal with as fraud, provided there is transparency." 


1.
Van Parijs L, Refaeli Y, Lord JD, Nelson BH, Abbas AK, Baltimore D.

Immunity. 2009 Apr 17;30(4):611. No abstract available.
PMID: 19382300 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

2.
Van Parijs L, Refaeli Y, Abbas AK, Baltimore D.

Immunity. 2009 Apr 17;30(4):612. No abstract available.
PMID: 19378495 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

3.
Van Parijs L, Peterson DA, Abbas AK.

Immunity. 2009 Apr 17;30(4):611. No abstract available.
PMID: 19378493 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Additional reading: Luk van Parijs